Stupidity abounds in Washington

From the brilliant Spengler (David P. Goldman) in an essay arguing that starvation is what toppled Morsi:

No one should mourn the Brotherhood, a totalitarian organization with a Nazi past and an extreme anti-Semitic ideology.

The notion that this band of Jew-hating jihadi thugs might become the vehicle for a transition to a functioning Muslim democracy was perhaps the stupidest notion to circulate in Washington in living memory.

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