Now the Defense Ministry has repeatedly asked our Defense Department for
“more rhetorical support” for a new set of personalities to run the government. Now Mr. Hagel has to be mum because he knows the President does not want to offend the party of the elected government. [N.Y.TIMES, 7-3-13]
And what about our own State Department? Mr. Kerry cannot
supply any constitutional rhetoric because he urgently needs dual statehood in Palestine. (Getting Israel to recognise Palestinian borders may be the ticket to a 2016 presidential nomination.)
We know the Ministry of Defense is stalling because they do not want to deal with the Brotherhood’s instituted state religion. Britain and France have made a lot of history in Egypt. Where is their rhetoric for constitutional reform? The most they can do is send a low key European Union diplomat who visited all the talking heads without focusing on fundamental principles. Who would know more about constitutional law and division of powers than Federal Germany? Yet the Germans have sent no panel of jurists to recommend changes in the Islamist
Constitution. (The first step is to AMEND the Constitution, not call an election for a new set of appointed leaders.) I met a former staffer of the German embassy of Egypt. We had lunch after church in Houston. She insisted to me that “the Brotherhood does not want an Islamist state but a state influenced by Islam.” Emendation of the Morsi constitution is the way to go, and a
“Constitutional Convention” should advise Mr. Morsi to take or leave it
…after the referendum.
