Will Egypt Go the Way of Iran?
The current U.S. administration is supporting Egypt in the same way that Iran under the shah was backed by the U.S. in the 1970s — as a regional power supposedly doing its bidding. U.S. administrations, unfortunately, have taken a dim view of internalizing historical lessons, and it may prove particularly perilous with the Obama administration.
The improbable fall of the shah, and his replacement by the radical, anti-American, messianic Islamic Republic led by ayatollahs, could very well occur in Egypt. Hosni Mubarak’s 28-year martial-law rule is similar to that of the shah’s, albeit the shah’s treatment of his people was somewhat more moderate. And the shah at least strove to build a middle class by fostering economic growth and expanding educational opportunities to average Iranians.
As with the shah, Mubarak is receiving some of the most sophisticated offensive arms in the U.S. arsenal. According to the U.S. General Accounting Office, large quantities of F-16 fighter aircrafts, M1A1 heavy tanks, Apache helicopters, E-2C Hawkeye Airborne Early Warning spy planes, as well as an array of missiles including the Patriot missiles, shoulder-borne TOW and Stinger missiles, Harpoon anti-ship missiles, air-to-surface and surface-to-surface Hellfire missiles, Maverick air-to-surface guided missiles, and cluster bombs have been delivered to Egypt by the U.S. (Most of these Israel receives as well.) Egypt receives about $2.1 billion annually courtesy of U.S. taxpayers (in 1990 the U.S. forgave $7.1 billion in past Egyptian military debt).
Egypt’s name, according to a report by the Federation of American Scientists, can be found on the CIA’s list of known proliferators, along with Iran, Iraq, and North Korea.
On the eve of the Iranian Islamic revolution, few pundits would have predicted the demise of the shah. The influx of rural workers to the cities, especially Tehran, along with the inability of educated young men and women to find suitable employment became a time bomb which Ayatollah Khomeini exploited. The Egyptian internal security forces are as brutal as the Iranian SAVAK, and Egypt’s exploding population (83 million at last count), high unemployment, low wages, rampant corruption, and nepotism (Gamal Mubarak, the president’s son, is being groomed to succeed the 81-year-old Hosni Mubarak) makes Egypt like Iran in 1979 — ready for an explosion.
The Muslim Brotherhood, with its largest following in Egypt, is waiting in the wings — and it may yet proclaim Egypt as the next Islamic republic. Opposition to Mubarak’s arbitrary rule and the possibility of Gamal Mubarak’s succession is a prescription for a combustible political situation.
The article’s conclusions are a bit of wishful thinking. Not that everything in the article is not completely accurate but it doesn’t necessarily lead to the author’s conclusion. Democracy is incompatible with Islam. Mubarak’s crappy regime is as good as it gets for an Arab country. There is no democratic opposition – looking for make-believe moderates is an exercise in futility. The sad reality is that there are no ”good guys” to support, the choice only goes from bad to worse.
In typical mendacious fashion anti-Zionists/ant-semites love to ream Israel as the grubby recipient of US aid, while few dare speak about monies funneled to Eqypt.
The fact of the matter is that there is NO comparison between the two. First, Israel supplies the US with inestimable intelligence information, plus much technological help for many of its military and other tech needs. Our chips run many of the world’s computer platforms.This is a fact, just ask INTEL executives.
Further, the military aid given is a win for US defense industries. Israel is mandated to spend its aid at US defense contractors, causing financial harm to its own defense contractors in the process. Not only that, it is held hostage to the whims of Washington, as spare parts are held like a sword of damocles if Jerusalem fails to toe their policy line. Egypt has NO such obligations or strings.
What is especially ominous about money/arms given to Egypt is that throughout their war games the scenario being played is always against, guess who – Israel.
In a very real and dangerous sense Washington is playing with fire. Jerusalem has little doubt that Egypt will be involved in the next big conflict that will soon erupt in the Middle East, surely joining forces AGAINST western interests.
US leaders almost never learn from history. This too is a fact.
Lucky for Israel, the Muslim Brotherhood is all about the Religion of Peace. Anyway, I’m confident Congress is on top of this.
Arms sales is the primary function of U.S. foreign policy. Forgiving debts to Egypt for billions in arms sales means that the U.S. taxpayer is picking up the tab. Not a bad business to be in when you consider that your sales agent is the State Department, the profits remain in private hands, and the taxpayers pick up the tab when the deadbeat countries don’t pay their bills. All the crap about the Muslim brotherhood,Israel, Zionists and so on is just a diversion to keep unsophisticated minds from understanding that the whole thing is a commercial enterprise.
egypt, the whole place can be washed into the med with one well placed bomb on the aswan, make it a nuke and the nile basin will be sterilized for the next five hundred years. let islam go iranian there and watch what happens the first time a new egyptian israeli war breaks out.
Not that it matters;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BGM-71_TOW
Missile weight is about 20 kilos ( 45 Pounds, almost) with the launcher weighing about twice that. So while man portable, in theory, anybody strong enough to fire one from their shoulder doesn’t need it. They should be able to tear a tank apart with their bare hands.
While an exaggeration, it’s not as much of one as your description of the Weapons going to Egypt as ‘modern’. They aren’t. Not by a long shot.
F-16 is still in production, but that is only because 3rd world nations love it. The design is 30 to 40 years old and was scheduled to be replaced with the F-35 starting last year. The WoT cut the funding for the F-35, plus the B model, which is the VTOL that everyone wants has issues.
The M1A1 is a good MBT, but it is older then the F-16. The version of the Patriot that Egypt gets is a VERY effective SAM, but it has no ABM capability.
No, the package that Egypt gets was carefully designed to make Egypt a very powerful 3rd world nation but it is still far short of Israel.
Weapon for weapon, all the way down the line, Israel can field superior weapons.
That doesn’t matter. Weapons don’t fight wars or win them, men do. Weapons are just the tools. The IDF is vastly better then any Islamic army. It is better then any European armies. The EU has spent the last couple of decades letting the USA defend them, while they spent money on their social net. The last time Europe was as weak as it is tody was before the Crusades.
If you want to be precise about it, there are only 4 nations today with what could be called “Modern” (state of the art) technology in their military. The USA, Israel, S. Korea (ROK) and Japan.
Russia and China are working on it.
Joseph Puder: stop making the Shah look good.. you make your self look real bad. the Shah did nothing good Iran I am Iranian and I participated in 1979 revolution. the shah was a tyrant like Mubarak.
#2 there is only one difference between the money we give you and Egypt is:
you use that money to eliminate Palestinians and Egytions use it to kill thier own people
HEP-T beat me to it. If the Mubarak regime falls to the kind of Wahhabi crap the Muslim Brotherhood is all about, we in Israel will have no choice but to destroy the Aswan High Dam. That would kill off about 70% of Egypt’s population. But for us, it will be a matter of survival.
But not with nukes! The floodwaters of the Nile, if made radioactive, would kill us off too, because they would go straight into the Mediterranean. So the explosive cannot be radioactive, or chemical or biological in nature.
Shahs, Mubaraks, and even Musharrefs are about as good as it gets for America when it comes to the sewer nations of Islam. When we force these grotesque but buyable (and therefore manageable) tyrants to “modernize” and “democratize”, all we accomplish is to empower the even worse Islamic elements, and compromise the manageable ones. Take Pakistan, for example. Mushareff was a disgusting tool, but when Bush assininely pushed him to hold elections in that vile vile nation, we got an even more corrupt Taliban loving regime in his stead. The same is probably going to happen in Afghanistan as Obama and the incompetents at State suddenly discover the newsflash that Karzai Is Corrupt and elections don’t work out to well when Muslims vote.
We must STOP our messianic push for regimes in the Islamic swamp to “democratize.” The ummah (Muslim hordes) exploit such openings to further install even worse terror regimes than those already on display. In the film, Jack Nicholson’s character asks “What if this is as good as it gets?” With the Shah, or Mubarack, Musharref, or Karzai, or any other of a handful of compromised and therefore buyable (persuadable) Muslim despots, it IS as good as it gets for the West. Anything to keep the savage barbarity of Islam out of power is a good thing for all, including the comparitively moderate suppressive brutality of those aforementioned grotesque tools.
“We must STOP our messianic push for regimes in the Islamic swamp to “democratize.” The ummah (Muslim hordes) exploit such openings to further install even worse terror regimes than those already on display.”
Prove it. The trouble with the Egyptian government is it isn’t listening, not with democracy or respect for individual rights.
The Egyptians chose their leader and now they’re stuck with him. Muslims are raised from Day 1 to be slaves so they grow up preferring strong man dictatorships over democracy. That isn’t a result of our foreign policy. That’s a result of their backwards disgusting religion. The idea that we’re responsible for Egypt’s current situation is ridiculous. Muslims and arabs blaming all of their problems on past European colonialism is getting real old and only really holds weight with self-loating leftists. Especially considering that muslim empires occupied European countries for far longer yet those countries still managed to develope. They also don’t blame their current problems on islamic imperialism. The rest of the world is getting sick of muslims constant whining and shifting of blame.
However I do agree that we need to stop sending so much foreign aid to hostile nations or 3rd world nations. Especially military aid. Arming our enemies is suicidal. Spend that money here at home instead. Or better yet, give it back to the tax payers.
Help a dictator now = create trouble for yourself later.
Who’s benefiting from this obviously shortsighted strategy?
For one it’s a win win for the CIA and thus for the State department by proxy. They make themselves look good by solving the current problems temporarily, and at the same time ensure that there are problems in the future to justify their existence. Also most ordinary people think that it is sound foreign policy to promote regional stability and foreign trade no matter how disgusting the supported regimes are. As long as it is in the narrowly defined national interest of the US.
The Neo conservatives was in fact the first group to achieve White House power that recognized the fallacy of this self perpetuating system. Ironically the group was severely vilified by the very same liberals that constantly blames the US for causing harm by supporting evil power structures in the 3. world.
Apparently to remove those disgusting regimes with military force was even worse than supporting them.
What strategies are left then? Neutrality? Not very appealing unless you are Swedish.
To a couple of people up there..first off easy with the derogative adjectives about Islam, whatever happened to freedom of religion and respecting the other? plus I really dont think i would be fair to judge an entire religion, with its culture..teachings and lives it has changed and its contributions to science due to a few who not only misinterpret it but commit heinous acts in its names ( that was on both Islam and Judaism alike).
Unlike your esteemed selves i will not claim i know of matters i am only exposed to through reading and second hand accounts, and make judgements and even go as far as insult..since we all know insulting is an action of the weak.
with that out of the way, allow me to be a little more constructive, since i think we are all trying to better understand one another. Democratizing Developing nations a good thing or bad? thats debatable..but for Israel to be concerned over the arms Egypt is receiving is as logical as elephants being terrified of mice. Israel has done very well for itself in the past 60 years and whatever aid its neighbours are receiving is nothing but an attempt to restore the balance of power. However that is not the first and foremost reason behind such initiatives..let us not forget that the cannon fodder for these guns will be the feared brotherhood, not our cousin-like neighbours we signed peace with 30 years ago, you should love mubarak..hes doing your work for you..not only him…Egyptians will not allow the brotherhood to be in power ‘legitimately or illegitimately’ if you have reason to beleive otherwise, it is because the brotherhood has managed to have its voice heard, through the internet and media, but their influence is the same it was back before camp David..their presence in parliament is noteworthy, but at the end of the day we all know what Egyptian parliament is..
Egypt is a police state, nobody can dispute that..transportation and free movement within Cairo is almost impossible. This very morning the city was on lockdown, just because someone decided to leave their palace, The mobilization to secure his mere movements have become more of an extravagant display of sheer power rather than function. I personally have been a recepient of Egyptian State hospitality at an unknown government location for 3 days and i can personally tell u that their treatment knows nothing but one law, the law of pain…but i find it very confusing how someone siding with Israel would perceive all this as a threat.
with regards to statements saying that the US isnt getting anything out of the current relationship with Egypt, I really would like to question that, since I know not of an Arab or Egyptian Lobby on Capitol Hill, there is no special political interests committee for Egypt, Egypt doesnt have a flourishing innovative Arms industry that the US would love to tap into. Egypt’s regional influence has been reduced to a Hollywood of the Arab World, The only Egyptian doing his job is Our Intelligence Chief and if my understanding is correct he is the only Egyptian The Israelis deem credible to invest their time with. So please explain to me why on earth would the US want to appease ….the Egyptians???????
“Prove it. The trouble with the Egyptian government is it isn’t listening, not with democracy or respect for individual rights.”
Tom, what would you consider evidence? The facts are so numerous and weighty that I wonder just why you can’t see them. Maybe you don’t want to? Anyway I would be happy to present evidence if you will state ahead of time just what you consider evidence. I have no interest in playing Charlie to your Lucy with the added excitement of moving goalposts.
As a point of fact, Islam is like a very primitive parliamentary government.
They have a dictator as a ruler, but he maintains his position with the consent of the Ulama (religious leaders). Every Friday, the despot gets mentioned in prayers, with the mullah (Imam) calling down Allah’s blessing on him. In theory, if the Ulmam don’t mention the despot, then the religious leadership has withdrawn their support and the masses are supposed to rise up. Sort of a ‘no confidence’ vote, only with weapons.
In practice, the despot sends over some thugs and they butcher the Imam (mullah) that called for the despots head.
Note that even if it works, the system doesn’t change, the man at the top does. Islamic experts differ on how compatible Islam and Democracy are. Some see the Ulama’s ability to remove the Caliph as evidence of democracy. Others don’t, since it seldom works like that. Plus there hasn’t been a true Caliph since Salah ad-Din Al-Ayyubi.
Plus Muslims haven’t quite got the concept of ballots replacing bullets down yet. I consider that distinction between bullets and ballots the only difference between democracy and any other government form.
Islam does not and can not recognize ‘human rights’. To be a Muslim you MUST surrender to Allah. Everything. Mainstream Islam doesn’t accept the concept of free will. EVERYTHING is the Will of Allah.
Dear John,
I have to commend you on your humor..since that is all what you have mentioned can be summed up into..I would like to ask you if you are quoting someone or did you come up with that on your own. I am sure everyone hear would like to learn about Islam from more “credible” sources, but thanks for keeping us at least “humored”.
Egypt is politcically secular, its laws -with the exception of personal status- mostly french..It has always been in the past 100 years the voice of Arab moderation. Alcohol is not only legal, but actually 18 is the legal age, Sex is all over Egyptian media and we even have our fair share of home grown homosexuals, we face the same social ills found anywhere in Europe or the US, we do not cut off the hands of theives nor stone “fornicators” to death – which is mandatory in Islam – Religion is left out of politics or the public domain. I am having Christmas Dinner this friday with a group of friends ( some of us Muslim, some Christian and one of them is actually gay)and last Eid i attended a dinner at a Christian friends place.
Power since its inception has always been abused, I am sure many of the people who support your view can name hundreds of Mubaraks and atyatollahs , But in the same bin should go all the Bushes and Stalins, or was Bush a muslim in secret? So John my friend this is a historical ill that knows no religion in specific, I dont want to take you too far back in History but werent the Christians guilty of similar crimes in the Crusades? during the Exodus? before Islam even came to being?
and since we went that far back, allow me to say that this primitive parliametary government was practicing its “Butchering” methods long before William the Conqueror pondered the thought of an England.. It was our time then, It is the West’s time now..Live and let Live..
Kane
I hope that you set this post up to receive emails for replies. By the time you receive this the internet will have been put back on in Egypt because the Egyptian people have won and overthrown their Dictator. Let me be the first American to Congratulate you on your new freedom. Good Luck, I hope it works out and that Egyptians enjoy the right to vote for the person who will sell them out to the Corporations oops I mean vote for your leaders from today to eternity .
Vsheehan
P.S. Go Parlmentary not Republic with a 2 party system as it is killing us.
with regards to statements saying that the US isnt getting anything out of the current relationship with Egypt, I really would like to question that, since I know not of an Arab or Egyptian Lobby on Capitol Hill, there is no special political interests committee for Egypt, Egypt doesnt have a flourishing innovative Arms industry that the US would love to tap into.
US leaders and the US government are willing to make great sacrifices to maintain our ‘friendship’ with the sponsors of 9/11, Saudi Arabia. The Saudis have a very powerful lobby in Washington, in our universities and in our media. As part of some imaginary ‘sunni bloc’ that probably only exists in the minds of State Department wonks, Egypt and Saudi Arabia are allies in our war against terrorism.
Yes, Wahhbis in Saudi Arabia and in the Muslim Brotherhood are the primary supporters of and participants in terrorism worldwide, but our state department would like us to believe that Iran is the primary supporter of terrorism. Since Saudi Arabia and Egypt have been making loud noises about their fear of Iran, and since Iran is allied with Russia (who we never really got along with), this makes Egypt part of a fairly powerful lobby here.
If Mubarek were replaced with the Muslim brotherhood, and if Egypt was living under sharia law, most people in our state department would be ok with that. It would be like working with our good ‘friends’ in the KSA.
#17 Mary you are so wise!! I asked you this before: have you dated a muslim before?
thank you mr – I didn’t answer the question before because it’s none of your business
Wow. That’s one of the most ill-informed articles on Egypt I’ve read in a long time. Shoddy analysis, 2-cents irrelevant comparisons, outright lies, and ultimately uneducated conclusions. Bravo! Few can pack this amount of crap in such small space.
Thanks for the laughs though!
Cheers from Cairo,
mohamed.
Mohamed
I hope that you set this post up to receive emails for replies. By the time you receive this the internet will have been put back on in Egypt because the Egyptian people have won and overthrown their Dictator. Let me be the first American to Congratulate you on your new freedom. Good Luck, I hope it works out and that Egyptians enjoy the right to vote for the person who will sell them out to the Corporations oops I mean vote for your leaders from today to eternity .
Vsheehan
P.S. Go Parlmentary not Republic with a 2 party system as it is killing us.
“I really dont think i would be fair to judge an entire religion, with its culture..teachings and lives it has changed and its contributions to science”
Contributions to science? What science is that? The science of spectacular mass murder?
The pupulation of 1.4 billion muslims have through the times managed to compile a “whopping” 2 Science Nobel prices. Compare that with 145 jewish nobel price winners in medicin, economics, physics and chemistry.
In general muslims do not contribute anything of universal value. They blow stuff. That’s what they do. They are followers, not leaders. You can not lie your way out of that uncomfortable fact. But all is not lost for muslims yet though. They can still redeem themselves. The first step would be to realize, what giant losers they are now and then work from there.
The small Scandinavian country, I was born in with less than 6 million people, have won 8 science Nobel prices. That’s 4 times as many as the entire population of 1.4 billion muslims. Or relatively speaking 1000 times as many.
Muslims contribute jack to science or anything else that matters.
I don’t understand what all the fuss is about. We’ll just stop supplying them with spare parts, and all of a sudden their beautiful parade pieces are museum pieces.
“To a couple of people up there..first off easy with the derogative adjectives about Islam, whatever happened to freedom of religion and respecting the other?”
Freedom of Religion means the freedom to practice that religion. Respecting or disrespecting whatever religion is in question is covered by the 1st amendment also.
In my travels I have noticed that one of the bigger differences between the 1st world and the 3rd (besides toilet paper) is that in the first world, respect is somrthing one EARNS. In the 3rd world respect is considered a right.
I think this is one of the major reasons why the 3rd world IS the 3rd world.
Kane, would you please be more specific about what you are questioning. Then I can look for an on-line quote to prove my point.
I spent the better part of a decade in my salad days working in the Islamic crescent in the OIL biz. Living and working. No fancy hotel. As often as not, a tent or lean-to until I got something more substantial built. So I know Muslims IN THEIR OWN ENVIRONMENT on a day to day, first name basis.
Not the tame ones that run the local convenience story, but the wild and wooly bearded ones. A lot of them earned my respect, some got their arse whopped.
Until you can provide specifics, here is something to chew on, besides the Egyptian blogger who is still in jail.
A couple of years ago there was a big flap about Allah cartoons.
First the Qur’an forbids depicting life forms ( dummi, IIRC) in a place of worship. It doesn’t say anything about on a billboard, or the side of a metro bus. Don’t know if you have ever been in a house in Egypt, or one of the old palaces, but all the homes I have been in have some sort of pictures in them. I have seen government buildings out in the sticks with animals set in the walls in tile as part of the decoration. I have seen Wanted posters, advertising, etc. IIRC, if you ride the bus from Ciaro to Gaza, there is a bill board advertising Kools, with a male and female lighting up. That has been about 4 decades, so it might not be there any more. But then again, we are talking the ME, so it very well could be.
So the proscription on images can be interpreted many ways. In the case of the Mullah cartoons I interpret it as an agi-prop campaign against the West. So any nation that participated in that campaign was committing an act of war against the west.
Not to worry, the West takes threats from Islam no more seriously then Shaq takes a threat from a 4 year old with a water gun.
Muslim Science was mostly stolen from either the Greeks, the Persians or the Indians. Sorry, but I can prove that too. I’m passing on the fact that ‘science’ means something different in the 3rd world then it os in the 1st. Although there is movement in the 1st world definition toward that of the 3rd.
The Brits and the French were right about Muslims, unruly children that need to be spanked every now and then. No respect is due Islam because they haven’t earned any.
Earn the respect of the West by interpreting the Qur’an from the “House of Islam and House of War” to include those on the way to the airport. Or the movies, or “House of those stuck in traffic”. Anything to get out of that “us or them” rut.
Islam only exists because most of the West refuses to take that two houses crap seriously. They day after the West realizes that Muslims are serious about the 2 houses thingie, Islam will cease to exist.
When that 4 year old trades his water pistol for a 9mm, Shaq will whop him upside the noggin.
mr: i am impressed by” it is none of your business. I am going to take it as yes.. how was it?
Re Kane, Egypt: The Exodus of the Jews from Egypt you mention in terms of war, was essentially bloodless. The formative experience of the Jews simply walking out of Egypt to freedom has made war anathema to Jews who will only engage in it when forced to the wall.
Regarding Islam, it will never improve its track record and should be abolished or revised. In particular, polygamy has been the most destructive force within Islam and for those who come in contact with it. Polygamy give more women to the powerful and rich, leaving a surfeit of males without the possibility of family. That scenario is perfect for forever wars of conquest where men are slaughtered for their women – repeatedly, on all fronts, with all manner of after-the-fact justifications: they took our land, they made fun of our Prophet, they disrespected us, our women, our needs. Accept the principle of “one woman at a time” and you will have made Islam into a true world religion.
“So John my friend this is a historical ill that knows no religion in specific, I dont want to take you too far back in History but werent the Christians guilty of similar crimes in the Crusades? during the Exodus? before Islam even came to being?”
Yes and no Kane. Yes and no.
Yes all men of all races, religions and creeds have at one time or another committed large scale murder and mayhem. What does that have to do with anything? What is the connection you see between the sack of Madgeburg and the terror bombing in Bali? People dying? Innocent people dying?
I don’t see it. People die every day, most of them are innocent.
I see the differences. Madgeburg was sacked during a war. It was unintentional as far as sacks go. Timerlane did much worse intentionally. During wars, it isn’t unusual for people to get slaughtered. Look at Hamburg, Dresden or Hiroshima.
To kill hundreds intentionally while not in a state of war is different. Or it is to Westerners. That fact that Muslims don’t see the difference speaks to the problem. Or maybe it is proof that Islam is at war with everyone that isn’t Muslim. Remember, House of Islam, House of War.
If Islam wants war, say so. We will arm our young men and you arm yours and we will send them out to fight. When the fighting is over, we will treat your women and children better then you do.
My greatest fear is that Muslims will commit some act so outrageous that the West cannot or will not turn a blind eye to it.
That is when the West will exterminate Islam.
That would be a crime. A crime that I don’t want on my conscience. Nor my child’s or grandchild’s. I doubt that we would kill Muslims to the last living person, but I’m certain that Arabs would be put on reservations and banned from worshiping Allah.
America has the ability to do that. We don’t have the will, but Muslims can provide us with both the will and the desire.
Egypt does not look like other countries of Islam – supported by America, the peace with Israel. But the fact that Egypt developed something serious -sounds like noncence. it seems this article full of desinformation.
Jerry;
Oh please. Look at Tiger Woods. Christians do polygamy too, just a bit differently.
Polygamy has been accepted by most religions at one time or another. It’s Christianity that’s the odd man out on this one.
At this point in time, unfortunately, I have to say that there is little that can surprise me. It is disheartening. The leaders of this world seem to only want to beat everyone down. It’s senseless.
How can you call any movement a religion when it teaches to kill anyone that does not believe as you do..oh..oh..yes, the Christians did that didn’t they? Soooo what is the difference??? Guess we’re “supposed” to be more refined nowdays…guess the “Islam” didn’t hear that one.
America will never retaliate in great force…not with Obama at the helm.
Islam/Muslims will continue to disrespect humanity as long as allowed.
Ohhhh to rule the world for one day!!!!!
‘have all my decisions stick,
not have to pay karma back,
a cold beer at the end of that day,
.. and a towel to wipe my bloody hands on…
ahhh the dreams..
I don’t trust Obama.
The truth is that Iran is winning and is winning very big. All pro-American regimes in middle east have become shaky while all anti-American imperialism are getting stronger. Look at Syria and Lebanon. The 2009 CIA operation to bring down Iran’s government by engineering a color revolution started all this collateral damage. All international and western polls of 2009 Iranian election had shown scientifically that Ahmadinejad would win the election but this did not stop CIA from supporting a small minority. Now Iran is taking advantage of a majority in middle east opposed to US and Israel and basically taking revenge. According to latest polls conducted by western polling agencies before this uprising in Egypt had shown that majority of Egyptians want to have an Islamic governance system and oppose US policies. Any one with a gram of grey matter can see that Iran the country that has the world’s fastest growth rate in science and technology is winning. GW Bush destroyed the American supremacy.