Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday said the US expects Egypt’s military authorities to fully transfer power to a democratically elected civilian government, following the country’s high court decision to dissolve the newly-elected parliament.
“There can be no going back on the democratic transition called for by the Egyptian people,” Clinton said, declining specific comment on the recent court ruling, which also included giving old regime members a green light to continue his bid for Egypt’s presidency.
But Clinton’s statement is nothing more than empty rhetoric. In order to accept it as genuine, one has to erase recent history which saw extensive US support for the former dictator Hosni Mubarak over the course of several decades. It was only after it was clear Mubarak would be ousted, that the Obama administration sided – at least rhetorically – with the people and asked for Mubarak to step down.
Of course, the very next move was to advocate and push for the preservation of as much of the Mubarak regime as they could, namely suggesting Mubarak’s brutal vice president, Omar Suleiman, replace the long-standing US puppet.
The US is still sending billions of dollars in aid to Egypt and continues to arm the military rulers, even as they have brutalized peaceful protesters and inhibited a swift return to civilian rule. Washington’s support has remained with the military junta from the beginning.
"Clinton: U.S. expects Egypt military to fully carry out democratic transition” when was the last time that such matter took place in real terms under the pressure. Besides, if Egyptian ruling military is not willing what US is going to do, invade Egypt…? And for the argument sake, when the Egyptian military is going to give up its power and give it back to people, next months, three months from now, three years from now. The question reminds me of when US and NATO countries are going to stop their wars, their support for tyrants and other from of dictatorial regimes around the world, when US is going to stop its idea dividing people by their religious, ethnic backgrounds, when is a good time for US lies about everything and above all the involvements of State Department mercenaries in Africa. Talk is cheap, and using the original double language is double cheap.
Let’s not kid ourselves; what happened in Egypt was not a revolution, but an uprising or a revolt which is still continuing. A revolution is supposed to bring fundamental changes in government such as Bolshevik Revolution, French Revolution, and Iranian Revolution. This did not happen in Egypt; just a US puppet, a fig leaf was removed by the puppet master, and the rebels became relaxed, and stopped.
From the very beginning it was evident that with Mubarak appointed military generals still left in power, the Egyptian people’s aspiration for a democratic government is doomed. Demonstrators would have succeeded had they not stopped with Mubarak but had pushed on, decimated the military and confined it to the barracks. They thought military was on their side, a dire mistake. It is now a lot harder to tackle the military. Unfortunately, a lot more blood would be shed to put the traitors in the military where they belong.
As for we came-we saw-he died lady, do not expect her to want democracy in Egypt or anywhere in the world since charity begins at home.
As with the Yemen election, Hillary Clinton is poised to praise the results of an election in which Mubarak crony Shafiq is the the only candidate.
Egypt has a Western democracy, which is slavery for the lower half of society, as it is rule by the 51% most wealthy.
Whereas, Iran has a moral democracy, which is rule by a set of high moral standards that do not allow wealth to corrupt the political process.
Asking for democracy in Egypt is like asking for qwality at Mall-Wart
John Glaser
“To accept it as genuine, one has to erase recent history”
Noam Chomsky tells us that the root cause is an American public having a sever case of amnesia, whereas Howard Zinn held that you can’t forget what you never knew, “If you don’t know history, its as if you were born yesterday.”
Whereas, John Ellis with hair so old and gray, with memory banks full of deceitfully bad history but in there by those who knew the truth but refused to honor it, he does always say, “Find a moral solution to an immoral society, then automatic will be a secular solution to a criminal government.”