Mauro: Why don’t you support the marginalization of the Muslim
Brotherhood and its affiliated groups?
Elibiary: President Obama has certainly expressed publicly the importance of strategic engagement for our national interest in multiple speeches, and to a lesser extent, so has Senator McCain, whom I endorsed on FOX News early in the 2008 election as a Texas Republican state convention delegate. So this is an area where I think our government’s policy is ahead of where the national political discourse is in theconservative media.
Having served for more than a decade in various Republican Party ofTexas positions, as well as with Dallas-based roots in the conservativemovement going back two decades, I clearly see that Christian socialconservatives as well as Jewish conservatives concerned about Israel’s future are simply fearful to the point of psychological paranoia on how todeal with the rising Islamic movements across the globe.
It’s my hope that interviews like this will help address concerns and helpelevate our national political discourse around these topics to catch upwith national realities.
Elibiary is transparently deflecting the key question by touting his success in penetrating not only the Obama administration’s highest councils but also the RepublicanParty and conservative movement in Texas. We can only surmise the extent to which
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