Egypt Simplified !

A military coup in Egypt recently resulted in the removal and imprisonment of the elected president, Mohamed Morsi, a closure of media outlets sympathetic to him, the house arrest of his advisors, and the suspension of the constitution. The military that overthrew Morsi is the main recipient of the $1.3 billion yearly US aid package to Egypt. You could say that the US “owns” the Egyptian military that just overthrew its democratically-elected leader.

The hypocrisy of US on these events in Egypt is stunning. As NY Times wrote:
“President Obama urged the military to move quickly to return Egypt to a democratically elected government, saying, ‘We are deeply concerned by the decision of the Egyptian Armed Forces to remove President Morsi and suspend the Egyptian Constitution.’ The president notably did not refer to the military’s takeover as a coup – a phrase that would have implications for the $1.3 billion a year in American military aid to Egypt.”

Well, Egypt had a democratically-elected government, but it was overthrown by the US-funded Egyptian military!
Let’s review US policy toward Egypt to see the foolish hypocrisy of  a classical US interventionism:

First the US props up the unelected Hosni Mubarak for decades, spending tens of billions of dollars to keep him in power.

Then the US provides assistance to those who in 2011 successfully overthrew Mubarak.

Then the US demands an election. The Egyptians held an election that was deemed free and fair and shortly afterward the US-funded military overthrows the elected president.

Then the US government warns the military that it needs to restore democracy – the very democracy that was destroyed by military coup!

All the while the US government will not allow itself to utter the word “coup” when discussing what happened in Egypt, because it would mean they might have to stop sending all those billions of dollars to Egypt.

It does remind one of operation Ajax in the early fifties in Iran (where an elected PM was toppled and put under house arrest, replaced with the Shah as executive), resulting in a 25 years absolute monarchy or de facto Royal dictatorship. Difference is that in those days,  nobody knew until discovered and confirmed but today in the age of globalization and  digital information ?????? It is however amazing and bitterly cynical that everyone knows yet offers nothing but a smirk of regret. I hope it is clear to the Egyptians, that this can and will happen to them again and again....Every time one of their leaders emancipates or decides to move ahead of the typical Bikini democracy wished by the west for Egypt is felt to have been compromised.
(With thanks to Ron Paul inst. F. Peace and prosperity)