OBAMA IGNORES PEOPLE'S WILL IN BOTH USA AND EGYPT

Again history repeats itself. In the recent sad developments in Egypt we see how far we have drifted from our nation's basic principles. In the January revolt against the long term US-supported dictator Mubarak the US vacillated long enough for a weak democracy to emerge. Not happy with the results of the people's choice of the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, Washington gave a green light for the July military coup by the generals. Al Jazzera and other journals have fully-documented how the USA secretly helped (using cash payments to demonstrators, its CIA, and ties to the Egyptian military)to topple the legitimate President Morsi, the first democratically elected president of Egypt. After Morsi's ouster, imprisonment and recent disappearance, we are faced with our government's hypocritical support for a new and ruthless military dictatorship. We watch as Washington remains silent as the military strongman General Al Sissi ruthlessly suppresses the Egyptian polity they disagree with. Washington hypocritically calls for "new elections" ignoring the fact that Mr. Morsi had just won with 52% of the popular vote only months ago..more than Obama did. We stand by silently, criminally helping undermine a nascent democracy in the Middle East. But more disquieting are the revelations of political machinations in our own nation in this affair. We see exposed in plain sight how here at home OUR government weakly acquiesces to the entrenched and powerful US defense contractors (with the aid of self-serving parochial Senators like Carl Levin) to ignore the long-established intention of Congress to prevent awarding aid to regimes which have gained power through military force, i.e. a military coup. With the nation and rest of the world watching, we see the Obama Administration in an embarrassing display, attempting to redefine in a Clintonesque manner what a "coup" is.

So in this "Egyptian scandal", we see revealed how the will of the people and sensible long term policies are undermined and weakened by the Obama Administration in both the USA and in Egypt! The whole affair in Egypt (as it appears to be directed from the offices of Washington defense contractors) is a scathing embarrassment and stain on our nation's reputation as the world's premiere democracy. We must ask, who runs this nation? The defense contractors or the people? Fully engaged in the hypocrisy and leading from behind is the Obama White House, led presumably by "the smartest guy in the room", a Nobel peace laureate and a legal scholar. One wonders with trepidation, what we can we expect from that office with one of the current crop of GOP hopefuls in Obama's place? God help us.

Get the picture?

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