I'd ask that question today in light of the Paris terror attack except Egypt's President el-Sisi had already given a full-throated call for reform in the Islamic world.
The media response was crickets and that has to raise the question of why did this go I to the memory hole?
We have the president of a major Muslim nation, a man who deposed the Muslim Brotherhood, calling for reform. This is no small thing to do. This is the nation where the Muslim Brotherhood assassinated Anwar Sadat for making peace with Israel. Mr. el-Sisi already has a target on his back for wresting power from the fanatics. This may well be his declaration of war.
It's understandable that neither President Obama nor Secretary of State John Kerry made a big deal of this. It was the holidays. Adjusting their schedules would risk missed tee times and could force them to reschedule meetings on how best to attack the new GOP Congress. These are busy men with priorities.
On the other hand, the news cycle for the holidays is slow. You would think the benchwarmers left to read the headlines in these doldrums might look to make a name for themselves by focusing on a major story.
Plus they would get warm fuzzy bonus points for an opportunity to tsk, tsk "Islamaphobia."
That's a win-win.
Yet nothing.
One has to wonder it it is because el-Sisi was not the Obama-backed horse. In a brilliant display of his "smart diplomacy," which can only honestly be described as soft pedaling America's enemies while betraying our allies, Obama backed the Muslim Brotherhood government.
Fortunately for the West, the Egyptian people did otherwise.
So now, highlighting the man who rejected Obamaism now calling for reform in Islam is more than simply a major news story and potential game changer.
It's a potential embarrassment to the Obama administration.
We can't have that.
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