The head of a grassroots national defense advocacy organization says the "Arab Spring" may unfortunately be coming to Jordan.
Jordan is the only remaining Arab country in the Middle East with a stable peace treaty with Israel, and the only country that remains a stable ally of the United States.
But during a recent interview on CNN, Jordan's foreign minister insisted that the crowds gathered in the streets of Amman -- those shouting "King Abdullah the second must go" -- consist of just a few angry people and that the king is the consensus figure for the country. He did admit that his country is concerned about the civil war in Syria and is "watching the situation very, very closely."
Brigitte Gabriel is founder and president of ACT! for America and author of The New York Times bestseller, They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It. She says U.S. Special Operations troops are stationed in the country for a reason.
"We were saying that we have them positioned in Jordan because we are worried about what's happening in Syria, and we want to make sure we are close so we can go in and protect whatever biological bombs that the Assad regime might have," Gabriel notes.
"But the truth is that our Special Ops [personnel] are positioned in Jordan to protect King Abdullah, because King Abdullah right now has only two-percent approval in his country. The majority of the people would vote the Muslim Brotherhood if elections are held in Jordan today."
Gabriel believes Jordan could be the next "chip" to fall in the Middle East.