EDITOR’S NOTE: This was the lead column at the AL JAZEERA web site today. It is important we know what our adversaries are saying and doing.
AL JAZEERA: … Clearly, we no longer suffer from short term memory in this country — we suffer from a total loss of memory.
We tend to forget that well over a year ago, political actors in America and allied nations had full knowledge that Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak was terminally ill. Certain that his reign was coming to a close, they devised a plan to compensate the inevitable loss of Mubarak’s unconditional support. A plan was put into motion to assist orchestrate an uprising which would benefit their interests. The idea was to support the uprising so that an ally could be placed in Egypt without raising suspicion. Not only would America be seen as a benevolent force acting in good faith, contrary to its hypocritical policies, but perhaps more importantly for the decision makers, Israel’s interests would be served – again – at the expense of the Arab world…
Media ‘pundits’ are eager to blame the timing of the protests in Egypt on economic hardships. Citing Egypt’s jobless and inordinate poverty, they would have us believe that the American ‘social media’, Tweeter in particular, has prompted and aided the protests. They would have us believe that in spite of the fact that the Egyptians cry over the price of wheat, they have cell phones and access to social media. We are to accept that the poor, hungry, and jobless Egyptians are revolting against their lot by ‘tweeting’ in English… (more)
I don’t believe it either. A key test of the success of the revolt is whether the U.S. gets the person they want, the vice president Omar Sulieman, to take Mubarak’s place. He is another Mubarak, younger and more closely allied with the U.S. If he gets in there will be more status quo than change.