With constantly shifting statements about the uprising in Egypt, the United States has been trying to keep the focus of demonstrators and the world at
large off of its own culpability in creating the Egyptian dictatorship and also off of the most glaring example of its hypocritical policies, the virtual prisoners being held behind the Israeli wall in the West Bank and Gaza. It has been using its Voice of America broadcasts and the social media websites to help stir up a "Day of Rage" in Syria on Friday, with the hope that President Bashar al-Assad would be the next target of angry demonstrators demanding that their President step down.
Behind the scenes, the U.S. has also been trying to get Jordan's King Abdullah II and puppet Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to
give some appearance that they are moving towards "upholding democratic values," since they cooperate with the U.S. and Israel. Abbas announced
that he would hold long delayed elections, but since both he and the U.S.
refused to honor the results of the 2006 parliamentary elections in which
Hamas trounced Abbas' Fatah movement, such elections will probably be
"a joke" once again.
Make no mistake, the U.S. is going to manipulate what it can to see that
a pro-American government will take over in Egypt after Mubarak is forced out. But at the same time, it wants to continue to keep trying to
undermine those leaders that don't "march to its orders."
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