@Jnoubiyeh
Hopefully the brave Egyptians demanding liberation in the streets of Cairo
since January 25 will not allow the United States to decide who will lead
their country ... either in the "interim" or long term. The U.S. scheme to
claim credit for getting their long time dictator friend, Hosni Mubarak,
to resign immediately and be replaced by new Vice President Omar Suleiman,
a notorious partner in the U.S. CIA's "extraordinary rendition" (torture)
program, with Suleiman receiving support from the Egyptian military, would make a mockery of all that the protesters have been risking their lives for.
Just as it has no credibility as a "broker" in the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations, so it should be given none as a "broker" in the Egyptian transfer of power.
How true that the US has no credibility in the Palestine-Israeli debacle for quite some time now. And all Mid-Eastern nations have felt the duplicity of US/UK policies. It's that "democracy-for-all" and "free elections" that have me routing for the Egyptian protesters and not Mubarak's henchmen. Thirty years is enough for both Egypt (as the top leader in the M.E)and the United States.
ReplyDeleteWhat I wonder about now is if "free elections" play out in Egypt, will the US team be comfortable with WHICH EVER party wins the majority as had happened with Hamas in Palestine? Or possible we'll have upheavals right here in the U.S.