Newt gets it wrong . . . again - #2

Exactly 10 days ago, I wrote a blog about Newt bloviating and getting it wrong about the Egyptian demonstrations and Obama's stance.

. . . Newt Gingrich, whose narcissistic mirror is telling himself that our country needs him to save it from the liberals and the wimpy internationalists, who are too weak in opposing Islamic extremism. Here's what he said on Sean Hannity's show last week, warning that Egypt could "go the way of Iran" and fall into the hands of an Islamic extremist dictatorship:

I think this is a period of tremendous challenge and is a sign of the general failure of our strategy of not dealing with radical Islamists and not being honest and aggressive of what's going on around the world.

He charged that Obama's administration had not taken the Middle East seriously, suggesting that Obama should not have given that 2009 speech in Egypt, "geared toward repairing America's relationship with the Muslim world."

In short, Newt is forging his stance to appeal to the right-wing war hawks who love nothing so much as war. In other words, we ignore the people's needs and just get rid of their leaders -- thus controlling them by threats and fear.

So . . . how does it look in Egypt now, Newt? Are you unhappy that everything points to this being the historic success story of the decade as far as peacerful overthrow of a despotic regime? And critics of Obama's handling of it have suddenly gone silent. What can you say when the disaster you predicted because of Obama's "failure" just doesn't materialize and in fact the opposite seems to be happening? Do you apologize and say you're wrong, Newt?

I'm not going to hold my breath. Let's just hope it's one more crack in Newt's narcissistic mirror that keeps lying to him about the country's need for him to run for president.

Ralph