My headline is misleading today. I do not attempt to read the future. it is (a) impossible and (b) always wrong anyway. Also irresistible. So here goes.
Christopher Bollyn, who seems to me in many ways the most interesting of all observers of the current scene, thinks the O administration is being deliberately duplicitous re Egypt: O and Lady Clinton both sing songs of admiration for the protesters while O sends (as he did on Jan 31) the CIA's Frank Wisner to Egypt (think of the oil it took to fly him there) to buck up Mubarak and then to say we have to stick with M until the end, or words to that effect, which words Lady C felt obliged to disagree with.
Well, maybe. And maybe it's just governmental confusion. But surely Bollyn is right that the "U.S. interest" is to keep the status quo going; that is what Israel wants (MUST HAVE) so that is also what we must want. Does anybody any longer think that ol' Sharon was lying when he said Israel tells America what to do?
The USS Kearsarge is appaently en route to Suez or already there, to be used if needed. Suez must stay open. And I'm sure we would prefer to see to do that rather than have the Israelis do it. It will be done. As the peace between Israel and Egypt will be kept. But meanwhile there are all those mere people in Egypt who are cutting up.
At this point my predicting machine shuts down. But I wish the Egyptians all the luck in the world. They've got some coming. And I wish all the power--worshipping and power-possessing bastards everywhere a very bad time.
Christopher Bollyn, who seems to me in many ways the most interesting of all observers of the current scene, thinks the O administration is being deliberately duplicitous re Egypt: O and Lady Clinton both sing songs of admiration for the protesters while O sends (as he did on Jan 31) the CIA's Frank Wisner to Egypt (think of the oil it took to fly him there) to buck up Mubarak and then to say we have to stick with M until the end, or words to that effect, which words Lady C felt obliged to disagree with.
Well, maybe. And maybe it's just governmental confusion. But surely Bollyn is right that the "U.S. interest" is to keep the status quo going; that is what Israel wants (MUST HAVE) so that is also what we must want. Does anybody any longer think that ol' Sharon was lying when he said Israel tells America what to do?
The USS Kearsarge is appaently en route to Suez or already there, to be used if needed. Suez must stay open. And I'm sure we would prefer to see to do that rather than have the Israelis do it. It will be done. As the peace between Israel and Egypt will be kept. But meanwhile there are all those mere people in Egypt who are cutting up.
At this point my predicting machine shuts down. But I wish the Egyptians all the luck in the world. They've got some coming. And I wish all the power--worshipping and power-possessing bastards everywhere a very bad time.
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