Feb 5th, 2011
Exactly what I feared has turned out to be true. Our government had certainly given the green light to Mubarak to do whatever is necessary to stay in power, at least for now. How else would you explain today’s words of US envoy Frank Wisner, who was dispatched to Cairo on Monday:
“You need to get a national consensus around the preconditions of the next step forward, and the president must stay in office in order to steer those changes through. I therefore believe that President Mubarak’s continued leadership is critical — it’s his opportunity to write his own legacy.”
Actually, Mubarak’s temporary leadership is not critical at all. Egypt’s 80 million people have many highly educated minds who are very capable of leading the country during a transitional period. Wisner’s words are patently revocable.
Critical, yes, but only for the United States’ interests, not the interest of the Egyptian people. Why is it critical for the US that Mubarak stays for a while, you ask? Because our government needs time to work its intelligence agents to somehow sabotage the Egyptian revolution and steer it toward choosing another US puppet regime. We need time to figure out how to play this to our full advantage and make sure “the Islamists” stay out of power. Our government needs some time to work out a plot, with the assistance of Mubarak, to secure Israel’s interests and keep Egypt from being truly independent at all costs. We need time to make darn sure that the popular voice in Egypt has no sound in its government. That is why he’s ”critical”.
This so-called leader has been embezzling his country out of billions of dollars while the average Egyptian made under $2000 a year. He is literally more of a thief than a leader. In the last few days he has killed and injured many peaceful protesters, which makes him a thief and a murderer. How can anyone say that it is necessary for a murderous thief to stay in power, even for a short time?
Let me get this straight. We have known all along that he was a dictator and we have known fully well about all his illegal ways of accumulating wealth, yet we chose to hide these facts and keep him as an “ally” sitting over the chests of Egyptians for over 30 years.
And now after all he has done in the last few days, after he unleashed his goons to kill and maim hundreds of his own people and after that became known to people around the Globe, we still say he’s “critical” for Egypt?!
This is nothing less than infuriating - to look at the Egyptian people with such insulting, despising eyes. Had Mubarak been ruling the United States, Wisner would be calling for his immediate prosecution. But being a brutal stealing dictator presiding over Egyptians, a “lesser” people who are used to humiliation and poverty and are too “novice” for democracy, somehow grants Mubarak amnesty?
No, not one moment of Mubarak is critical for Egypt.
