The so-called “democracy assistance” provided by the US State Department, and funneled through groups like the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has been controversial for years, cynically bankrolling foreign political parties seen as pro-US under the guise of supporting democratic institutions. What they did in Egypt really takes the cake.
Despite the Obama Administration’s pretense of remaining “neutral” on the matter of Egypt’s military coup, the records show that the “democracy aid” funding in large measure bankrolled pro-coup opposition groups, and other proponents of violent regime change.
The various NGO activists included Col. Soliman, a top member of Egypt’s notorious secret police during the Mubarak era, who received tens of thousands of dollars through the NED to encourage violent attacks on Morsi government officials.
Soliman is just one of many on the State Department dole, and combined they constitute virtually the whole leadership of the anti-Morsi movement that organized protests, at the behest of US officials, to justify the military takeover.
The military planned its takeover for months, and made it clear they were just waiting for the excuse. US taxpayer dollars funded the creation of that excuse in great measure.
Here's whats not understood. And why this article is spreading foolish confusion.
The American government supported Morsi.
The NGO's support whoever is in opposition to whoever is in power.
So America does both. It supports Morsi and also tries to overthrow him.
Both ideas are wrong.
Leave people alone, and things won't get so complicated.
All foreign governments are aware of this juxtaposition.
But Obama and the formal government absolutely supported Morsi and DID NOT want him removed.
That's WHY THEY HATE US!
America is VERY MIXED UP!
The bottom line is that the Egyptian army does nothing without the approval of the US.
If the progressives and the MB in Egypt want to free themselves from the clutches of the US Empire and Israel, they better stop fighting one another and concentrate on fighting the army and police, the agents of imperial rule over their impoverished country.
Both misunderstood who the main enemy is. And the progressives display their usual hypocrisy about government.
They have been divided – and conquered. Again.
"The American government supported Morsi." There are factions within the USG that did not/do not support Morsi. In either case, US taxpayer dollars should not be used in any way to support or not support factions in another country's government. How about we use those US taxpayer dollars here to fix our own problems and crumbling infrastructure.
With respect, I disagree. Your analysis seems as if it might be based on the assumption — "questionable" is the most polite way I can put it — that what government "spokespeople" declare in public is what they sincerely mean (rather than,…say,… what they want you to believe.)
As in so many cases — Argentina, Brazil, Turkey, Pakistan, Chile, Honduras, Indonesia, Algeria,… and Egypt as well — the military is the real seat of power, and whatever civilian govt exists does so with the approval of the military. In Egypt this has been and remains clearly the case.
I suspect that, to restore stability, calm the revolutionary passions ignited by the "Arab Spring", and prepare the ground for a "reconfiguration" of Egyptian governance to a form more favorable to Washington, the US State Dept and Pentagon advised the Egyptian military to be patient. Permit Morsi's election victory to stand. Don't provoke Egyptian hostility and suspicion toward you by phonying up the election results in favor of your guy or canceling outright Morsi's win. Wait until conditions are right, and then ride in as heroes and rescue the nation from Morsi's (engineered Plan B) misrule.
The powers in Washington then executed their plan: to covertly sabotage Morsi's attempts to govern(while seeming to support him), and simultaneously funding the opposition and opposition media.
In contrast to the usual US foreign policy clusterfock, this Plan B seems to — so far, at least, wink wink — have worked perfectly. Those very same people who only a year ago were suspicious of the Egyptian military, seeing them rightly, as the extension and guarantor of the Mubarak regime, now view the military with favor and its removal of Morsi as the rescue of the Egyptian "revolution".
I suspect they'll soon be disabused of that pleasant fantasy.
The perfect execution of their plan suggests that the Washington power elite, partnered if not dominated by its own military subculture in the form of the MIC, is not the least bit "mixed up".
Morsi was the winning candidate chosen by Hillary Clinton, Saudis and UAE approved by Obama, yet all that comes to the Egyptian people choice. In regard to NED, first of all if stat department have so much money to "Bankroll" a movement in such magnitudes then they are able to chose their chosen to become the president of that country, in this case Morsi. Obama idea in more of a Islamization sunny style, in that part of the world is helping the Saudis to establish a mor of religious dictatorial regimes rather then a functioning democracy is the core of the matter, here again Morsi was the candidate.
The same thing is in Syria, a regime of the same kind as Morsi attached to Saudis and UAE then a functioning democracy. Let me give an example, during Balkan war dividing Yugoslavia was about to dividing and establishing a "democratic" government against socialist or socialism in Yugoslavia, Obama is doing the same as Bill Clinton did in Yugoslavia, although the idea of "democracy" was helping the Kosovo Albanian sunny Muslims to create a "democratic" sunny muslims European style, but such system was to be created against socialism in Yugoslavia, the same thing regarding muslims influence in Europe is about demolishing the kind of democracy exist in Europe. Here, Egypt is not Yugoslavia nor is Syria, that's where this MIXD UP politics starts and therefor have no ending but for USA and EU to give up on the idea and let the people of Middle East to sort things out and they will.
Although this is only my idea but for US, Don't support the terrorism sent by Saudis or the UAE, don't support Israel apartheid regime nor for FG to have NED in its budget where such entity has become a government within the government capable of choosing for other nations. In another word, Leave the people of Middle East alone, while leaving, take your bulldogs with you, let people to create their own functioning democracy, they don't believe in USA or EU falsified democracy any longer.
To get any of these revolutions (overthrows) under way there always has seemed an invisible hand never fully discovered until perhaps now in Egypt. Certainly in Libya and Syria the initial disturbances that provoked the armed authorities were calculated with a plan. Provoke the police, spread the propaganda Gaddafi or Assad killing his own people and strongly lobby western governments. This succeeded with the Libyan no fly zone through a sudden lapse by Chinese and Russians at the UN. One wonders how the Russian vote on Libya was obtained. The thought of sex and UN delegates had crossed my mind.
I really don't think the Americans are all that interested in bankrolling these coups. The real driving force is the various think tanks and councils all heavily supported by Israel supporters and Jewish donors who offcourse line the White House with their choices.
As always, I'm shocked, SHOCKED, to find gambling going on here (said tongue in cheek). The fact is that U.S. foreign policy operates much like the economy – we hedge our bets, trying to play both sides against the middle, so depending on the outcome, whatever happens we can either 1) take the credit or 2) shirk responsibility. In other words, we have no strategy, so we gamble. Soon we will end up fiscally bankrupt (it seems we are already morally so), and then finally have to get the hell out of Dodge when we can't afford to play any more. That is, if they don't run us out on a rail before then.