{"id":18620,"date":"2011-03-25T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:21:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-20T00:21:46","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:21:46","slug":"american_foreign_policy_no_longer_oriented_around_our_best_interests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/03\/25\/american_foreign_policy_no_longer_oriented_around_our_best_interests\/","title":{"rendered":"American Foreign Policy No Longer Oriented Around Our Best Interests"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Laura in Great Falls, Virginia. Hi. You\u2019re on Open Line Friday. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hi. Thank you, Rush, for taking my call. I\u2019m a longtime listener. I love your show.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: You are a great American.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: And keep speaking up because I agree with you on everything you say.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well!<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah, I do. I do. And I have a passion for your show, and I\u2019ve been trying to reach you many times, but, unfortunately, the lines were busy, but anyway, I got my dream today. Anyway, my comment today is about Egypt. And Egypt, the future is quite bleak for Egypt. And here\u2019s why. We remember in 1981, Anwar Sadat was assassinated by the Muslim Brotherhood.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n<paragraph\/><paragraph\/><paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">CALLER: And the strongest opponents of Mubarak today and they are closely tied to Iran. We all know that. Now that radical violent organization is about to take much more influence and control in Egyptian politics. They were less violent during the 30 years because of the strong leadership of Mubarak. Now he\u2019s gone, and I believe that the close relationship with the United States is history. Now, even though I quote from STRATFOR January 4 &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Let me ask you a question.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Do you think Obama cares?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: He doesn\u2019t care.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Do you think he cares that the relationship we once had with Egypt is frayed now?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I don\u2019t think he does. Otherwise, he would have behaved differently, when he came out and he just humiliated Mubarak openly. This president, even though he made serious mistakes, Rush, there are positive fruits. The present US administration set out to humiliate him publicly from the beginning of the massive demonstrations in Egypt, and only a rebuke from Saudi Arabia slowed our government\u2019s tactics. And no Arab country in the Middle East has done more to befriend America. And I don\u2019t know why they betrayed him. I\u2019m very sick and tired of it.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, I\u2019ll tell you why, and it\u2019s obviously more nuanced than this. The United States foreign policy has always been a complicated thing for purists to understand, but it really isn\u2019t hard to understand. In the old days US foreign policy was rooted in the best interests of America, what was best for us, our freedom, and our people, whoever we had to align with. Now, Mubarak is not perfect. Mubarak is certainly not perfect, but better than the rest of the lot. That\u2019s what\u2019s gone out the window, what\u2019s best for America. US foreign policy being rooted in American national interests, that\u2019s what\u2019s gone out the window, and that\u2019s what makes people like Mubarak expendable. That\u2019s what no longer exists.<\/p>\n<p>END TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>*Note: Links to content outside RushLimbaugh.com usually become inactive over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Laura in Great Falls, Virginia. Hi. You\u2019re on Open Line Friday. Great to have you here. CALLER: Hi. Thank you, Rush, for taking my call. 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