Kefaya and Muslim Brotherhood: Ditch the rejectionism and get with the program.

Both the Kefaya movement and the Muslim Brotherhood have spoken out against Obama speech in Egypt. Here and here are a couple articles about their stance.

Rejectionist politics, as usual, I say.

While of course all in the Middle East have plenty of reason to oppose US policies there, we do have new administration and one that is clearly trying to reach out to the region and repair, well actually create is a more appropriate description, ties. He has been running up and down the region talking about relations based on 'mutual respect' and 'mutual interests.' It's like they all have ear plugs in or something from last night's show. Here's even an article they can read in Arabic on it! (I know we can't take everything at face value, but there is obviously some truth to what Obama is saying.)

Both have put forth a variety of arguments, namely that that the US is serving its own agenda. This is a given in foreign relations, so tey need to get over that ASAP. Instead, what the Muslim Brotherhood and the Kefaya movement need to look at is how their interests and the US' may align. Obama is interested in stability and democratic development in the region, though he might not say it explicitly, the Muslim Brotherhood and Kefaya would be smart to endear themselves to Obama as democratic opposition groups, not radical reactionary rejectionist fringe movements.