Bless you Bobby for taking this chore on.Morsi has not been shy about airing his odious views. In a May 2010 interview with Brookings Institution scholar Shadi Hamid, Morsi dismissed al-Qaeda's responsibility for the attacks. "When you come and tell me that the plane hit the tower like a knife in butter, then you are insulting us," Hamid reported Morsi as saying.
It's a short list that does NOT insult the Broderbund.
"How did the plane cut through the steel like this? Something must have happened from the inside. It's impossible."
Ask Rosie O'Donnell.
Similarly, in 2007, Morsi reportedly declared that the United States "has never presented any evidences [sic] on the identity of those who committed that incident." In 2008, he called for a "huge scientific conference" to analyze "what caused the attack against a massive structure like the two towers."
We have already had 200 engineers and professors look at the structural failures. But there might have been some Juices on that panel.
Mustafa Ghoneimy, leader of the Brotherhood's Guidance Office, said "the Jews" had executed the attacks. "So many Jews worked in these two towers," he said. "And on that day, they were off." Meanwhile, Brotherhood secretary general Mahmoud Hussein pinned the attacks on "one of the intelligence services in America, or the Jews." Spokesman Mahmoud Ghozlan speculated that "intelligence services" were behind the attacks, since "it is impossible for immature pilots to execute their ideas. It needs some professionalism to do it."
He couldn't have done it, so it's impossible.
The United States should be willing to extend economic and military aid to Egypt commensurate with the latter's needs and its commitment to partner in advance of common objectives. But in working out the details of this new arrangement, our president should not give his personal imprimatur to leaders who espouse repulsive, abhorrent views that undermine a vital U.S. national security interest.
Mubarak did not believe the six million dead Jews, but maybe he kept his opinions to himself?
To that end, Obama should explicitly condition any meeting with Morsi on the latter's clear and public renunciation of 9/11 revisionism. This position would present Morsi with a stark choice: He can either repudiate the hate-filled conspiracies that he has helped to sow and reap the benefits of Obama's embrace, or he can expose himself as an irresponsible ideologue with whom few members of the international community will want to deal. Failure to lay down a marker with Morsi before he comes to New York means Morsi may never have to make that choice. I am not holding out hope, let alone my breath.