BigBallinStalin wrote:saxitoxin wrote:spurgistan wrote:So, hmm, the CIA removed the only guy in Egypt who likes us. Dammit, I got fooled again. Thanks, saxi!
Oh yawn, why do I bother ... tomorrow you'll be bedazzled by some new revolution in Iran or wherever with photogenic, blue jeans-wearing youthful revolutionaries using Twitter or Facebook or some new Web 2.0 platform needing a market - all in perfect English, of course - or American Idol, etc.
It was reported as late as 2008 that Mubarak was terminally ill and the U.S. was frightened of a power-vacuum after he died.
http://www.aei.org/article/29065Egypt's octogenarian president, Hosni Mubarak will soon depart the scene either of his own volition or following his inevitable death or disability. Should Gamal end up succeeding his father, such an approach would leave U.S. options between a rock and a hard place.
(date of article: 2008)
Now a US-backed military dictatorship is running the country and there's no fear of Gamal Mubarak taking-over a shaky regime.
Spontaneous people's revolt. LOL. Wanna buy a bridge?
1) If they is all smoothly going so well for the CIA and/or Mossad (from now on, the CIAsad, or Ciasad), then how are they going to broker power to their enemies, the Muslim Brotherhood without pissing off the majority (or really, enough people)?
2) And, aren't you still basing this on the assumption that this is a Ciasad-engineered coup? Don't you think you're overestimating their ability to shape the politics in this country?
If you see smoke there's probably a fire.
Everything about this, from the photogenic, made-for-TV images, to the "spontaneous" throngs that materialized overnight is identical to Serbia 2000. If I'd said Serbia 2000 was a CIA-backed event people would have dismissed me with a wave and a laugh, pointing eagerly at their Tee-Vee screens and the "youth movement" running about, using "non-violent" tactics to confront jack-booted riot police, repleat with pre-Twitter slice-of-life story lines neatly packaged by CNN.
Three years later we got definitive proof (though most westerners paid it no heed) that the "Serbian youth movement" was raised and organized by CIA force-multipliers and all the Americans cheering their TV screens at the scenes from Belgrade had been played as fools by the Clinton-Bush regime. But, by then, they were all busy guffawing over the inaugural season of The Office and sexing their cousins. Simple pleasures for simple people.
Egypt 2011 was a giant, made-for-TV movie that resulted in a pro-American military dictatorship led by Don Rumsfeld's old cohort, Field Marshal Mo Tantawi, as El Supremo. But, made-for-TV movies - especially a classic Hollywood underdog-slays-the-bully storyline - sells well to glassy-eyed westerners.
