What, the Muslim Brotherhood Isn't Moderate? Unpossible!

Coming to us, via Ace, we find that it's a Shocker: Media/Liberal Internationalist Conventional Wisdom Wrong on Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood!

Apparently, the Brotherhood is hell-bent for remaking Egypt in its own image, all the while ignoring a country's economy in freefall. Huh, that feels like a familiar feeling...

I love Ace's take on the supposed experts who felt there would be no problem ousting Mubarak and getting friendly with good ole Morsi:

Even though they got this one (and the last one, and the one before that) wildly wrong, they'll be very arrogant and demanding that you trust them on the next one.

The central gravamen of the leftist worldview on foreign policy is that the right spends far too much time "hating" and "fearing" external enemies, imagining those external enemies to be very different from themselves, and thus alien and threatening. 

To combat this supposed failing, leftist worldview pushes the idea that those in other countries are "really no different from ourselves," and they base their prognoses on this idea. The idiots at Davos imagine that the Muslim Brotherhood types might talk tough, but deep down, in their truest heart, they'd... all rather be at Davos, too. They too would like to sip champers and chomp on shrimp.

They then peacock around, showing off their Morally Superior feathers, noting how -- unlike those Xtianists in the US -- they don't "hate" and "fear" what they don't understand.

I wonder how they'd have taken him if he'd been part of the Christian Brotherhood?