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<p>On April 1, 1979, Khomeini officially declared his Islamic revolution and called it the "first day of the government of God." That declaration was accompanied by screams of "Death to America." The tragic mistake by Jimmy Carter precipitated the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, the Iran-Iraq War, the funding of the Mujahedeen beginning with $50 million and ultimately up to $10 billion, matched by the Saudis.</p>
<p>Nothing much has changed in the thirty-plus years since Khomeini's declaration. Radical Islamists have planned from the beginning to try to establish Islamic states in the Middle East, including Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Gulf States, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, etc. Their second phase would be to expand to regions and nations that already have a strong Muslim population, i.e., Eastern Europe. The third phase would be to spread the caliphate to America and the rest of the world.</p>
<p>The attack on the United States on September 11, 2001, was not aimed at bringing down the U.S., or even to allow radical Islam to take over; it was to send a message to America. It was aimed at illustrating to the government the ability of radical Islamic terrorism to seriously injure the economy and the safety of its citizens. It was a signal that if the U.S. did not initiate a foreign policy that corresponded with the interests of radical Islam, the unthinkable would happen.</p>
<p>Bin Laden and radical Islamists consider the U.S. as the primary obstacle to achieving the first phase of the strategy to take over the Middle East. The plan was to force America to stop supporting Muslim allies in the Gulf as it had done with the Shah of Iran. Bin Laden believed if he could get America to turn on its allies, there would be no one to protect these regimes from a radical Islamic revolution. This is precisely what an Internet-savvy, community organizer, President Barack Hussein Obama is doing. He is betting the farm on democratic governments that will likely be totally aligned with mosques, mullahs, and madrassas, and will enhance America's foreign policy interests in the region rather than lending support to dictator-allies.</p>
<p>History will give President Obama as much credit for the Islamic revolution now being birthed as it gave Ronald Reagan for the fall of the Berlin Wall. The president has now taken on becoming the Middle East Muslim community organizer. He apparently believes that change is not only desirable and inevitable, but that the U.S. must take the lead in shaping the Middle East.</p>
<p>In August 2010 President Obama, believing that America's relationship with the Arab world was broken, issued Presidential Study Directive 11 asking agencies to prepare for change. The document cited evidence of growing citizen discontent with the "region's regimes" and warned that "the region is entering a critical period of transition." The president asked his advisors to "manage these risks by demonstrating to the people of the Middle East and North Africa a gradual but real prospect of greater political openness and improved governance."</p>
<p>Six months later, this revolution was toppling leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya and spreading to the Gulf oil fields. The response of Obama's deputy national security adviser, Ben Rhodes was, "We have a core interest in stability through political and economic change. The status quo is not stable."</p>
<p>The White House reviewed earlier democratic shifts in Indonesia, the Philippines, Serbia, Poland, and Chile for "lessons learned." From that study, Obama's team bought into transition to achieve "buy-in"; affecting quick change that is obvious to all, i.e., setting political prisoners free, giving freedom to the press, freedom to protest—precisely what Jimmy Carter demanded in Iran.</p>
<p>This review has led U.S. officials to conclude that countries need to bring the opposition quickly into a change to achieve "buy-in"; make fast changes that people can see, such as freeing political prisoners; and sequence events, putting the easiest first, so that presidential elections precede parliamentary balloting and detailed rewriting of the Constitution.</p>
<p>President Obama gave his "Berlin Wall speech" on June 4, 2009, in Cairo. He declared that "tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations." This is the core of Obama foreign policy change: to not have strong allies in the Middle East as proxies.</p>
<p>President Obama inspired hope for the masses when he, as an African-American with the name Barack Hussein Obama, made it clear that America was not "at war with Islam," and that the two greatest destabilizing factors in the Middle East were al Qaeda and Israel. President Obama made a bold and impassioned plea for democracy in his speech. He said: "There are some who will advocate for democracy only when they are in power, and once in power, they are ruthless in suppressing the rights of others … elections alone do not make true democracy."</p>
<p>The specter of a global collapse of the world's economy, along with Islamic Sunni oil states at war against the "Great Satan"—America, and the "Little Satan"—Israel, may be the price the West will have to pay for "April Fools."</p>
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