Washington's 'Creative Chaos' in Egypt Must Be Blocked (Al Madina, Saudi Arabia)
"America threw all of its weight behind the Muslim
Brotherhood. Washington ignored the Brotherhood's actions and exaggerated measures
taken against it. The U.S. recruited American and European media to portray
events as it wished, exerted pressure on Europe to take positions supportive of
the Muslim Brotherhood, and pushed the commander of NATO to openly intervene by
commenting and warning about recent events in Egypt."
Egypt's former dictator Hosni Mubarak inside a courtroom cage: Is it a coincidence that now, after the toppling of Egypt's first democratically-elected president by the military, a court has ordered his release on bail?
What
is going on in Egypt is more dangerous than the question of whether to allow or
prevent the Muslim Brotherhood from ruling the country. America threw all of
its weight behind the Muslim Brotherhood. Washington ignored the Brotherhood's
actions and exaggerated measures taken against it. The U.S. recruited American
and European media to portray events as it wished, exerted pressure on Europe
to take positions supportive of the Muslim Brotherhood, and pushed the
commander of NATO to openly intervene by commenting and warning about recent
events in Egypt. For the massive ongoing media campaign against Egypt and its
people [i.e.: the military and its interim government], the U.S. never needed
to lift a finger to recruit anyone. Even so, Egyptians came out on the streets to
bring down the Muslim Brotherhood. What is going on now is simply an attempt on
the part of Americans to restore the bloody train of transformation back to a track
they long favored.
There
are two schools of thought on the new/old U.S. position. The first was
mentioned by Dr. MaamounFendi
in an article published by Al Sharq Al Awsatten years ago,
on Nov, 25 2003, when he wrote: "The yearly meeting of the Muslim
Brotherhood will take place in an Arab country, and will include dialogue
between the Brotherhood and America. This appears to be part of Washington's
attempt to look for alternative leadership in the Arab world, because they
think that the Brotherhood are better placed to combat al-Qaeda's brand of Islam
with a moderate form.”
This
was the banner with which the Brotherhood markets itself among Western countries.
This
analytical trend was observed again by Abdul Rahman
Al Rashed in his daily column in the Al Sharq Al Awsat last Saturday, when he wrote: "Most Western
commentators agree that the Brotherhood holds the key to terrorism, and they can
turn it on or off. This seems to be something being marketed by other parties
on behalf of the Brotherhood in America and Europe."
The
other school of thought on America's position is based on the "Rumsfeld
Principle," named for the U.S. defense secretary during the Iraq invasion.
This called for deploying "creative chaos" in both the Arab and Muslim
worlds to reach a result pleasing to the West, and particularly America, and
according to which would emerge Western-friendly democracies - or at least
governments that could control the thoughts and Islamic tendencies of their citizens
in ways that would not pose a danger outside the borders of these countries.
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Such
chaos was indeed infused in Iraq, where a sectarian conflict erupted with the
help of proxies supported by foreign interests, be they Shiite, such as Iran
and Lebanese Hezbullah, or Sunni, such as al-Qaeda and Islamic Jihad. Ten years
have passed and there is still no sign of stability in the country or the
provision of security for its citizens. The Americans are preparing to withdraw
from Afghanistan next year without finalizing appropriate arrangements for the maintenance
of some degree of security and stability. The Obama Administration is moving to
achieve a rapid withdrawal without any military security arrangements, under
the pretext that it cannot find agreement with Afghan President HamidKarzai. This is a repetition
of what it said about the lack of agreement with Prime Minister Maliki when it
withdrew from Iraq in such a hurry.
Are
Egyptians succeeding in stopping the path to “creative chaos” and the
installation of Muslim Brotherhood rulers in the region? Or is this an
emergency situation in which the international community (America) will strive
to overcome and return the train to its track before it affects other areas
where the Brotherhood are active, such as Yemen, Tunisia and Libya?
