http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2012/03/30/theodore-roosevelt-on-the-early-20th-century-egyptian-arab-spring/
TEDDY ROOSEVELT WAS KNOWN FOR THE PHRASE; “SPEAK SOFTLY AND CARRY A BIG STICK”….THE PRESENT OCCUPIER OF THE WHITE HOUSE “SPEAKS SOFTLY AND CARRIES A BIG SCHTICK”……RSK
Theodore Roosevelt on the Early 20th Century Egyptian “Arab Spring”
Theodore Roosevelt penned the remarkably prescient words, below, in a 1911 letter to his long-time correspondent and friend, Sir George Otto Trevelyan, reflecting upon Roosevelt’s post-Presidency visit to Cairo and Khartoum, the previous year. Roosevelt’s concerns about the recrudescence of “old-style Moslem rule,” i.e., a Sharia not re-shaped or constrained by Western law, may now be fully realized a century later following the removal of Egyptian President Mubarak, and the electoral ascendancy of vox populi, mainstream Egyptian Islamic parties.