{"id":4071,"date":"2011-02-12T08:45:25","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T16:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4071"},"modified":"2011-02-12T08:45:25","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T16:45:25","slug":"egyptus-perspectives-from-hypocrisy-to-insanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/12\/egyptus-perspectives-from-hypocrisy-to-insanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt–US Perspectives: From Hypocrisy to Insanity"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s no point in updating you on want\u2019s happening in Egypt.  That\u2019s everywhere, but I would like to share a couple of US perspectives that have insufficient coverage in the mainstream.  First, I approve most of Barack Obama\u2019s handling of the revolution.  He offered verbal support for the demonstrators\u2019 ideals, without getting directly involved, making it appear to be a US takeover, and inspiring blowback from radicals.  After Mubarak\u2019s fall, he clearly described the democratic freedom and individual rights we should support.  However, such lofty aspirations are pure hypocrisy as long as he continues to pour American blood and treasure into propping up the regime of Hamid Karzai, who is as bad as, if not far worse than Hosni Mubarak.  Second, some Republicans have supported Obama\u2019s position in Egypt.  The Republican Presidential hopefuls are virtually silent on Egypt<\/a>, except for Palin, and nobody has figured out what her statement means.  They will surely try to take credit if it goes will and pass blame if it goes poorly.  But many Republicans and the Republican media, especially the Republican Ministry of Propaganda, aka Fox, has taken occasion to fear monger and hate monger in ways that can only be called insane.<\/font><\/p>\n

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The people of Egypt, taking the lead from the popular uprising that unseated another U.S.-backed dictator in Tunisia, are finally fed up with all the police brutality, the corruption and the compromises and are calling for change.<\/p>\n

Afghans, meanwhile, are left watching Egypt from afar, pondering what their political future might possibly hold as Karzai becomes increasingly autocratic and the U.S. military, in the name of democracy, digs in for a 10th year of fighting the Taliban<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cKarzai is trying to suppress a problem rather than solve it, and that in the end makes the problem worse,\u201d said Mohammad Nasib, managing director of WADAN, an Afghan non-governmental organization that promotes grass roots democracy.<\/p>\n

And when an autocrat sweeps problems under the rug for too long, the situation becomes volatile<\/strong> and, as Nasib pointed out, \u201cWe can all see the evidence of that now in Egypt.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is a growing perception here that Karzai is gaming his own hand-picked judiciary in an attempt to stack the parliament in his favor<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

After the attorney general issued a report earlier this month documenting the millions of dollars that went to buying votes, a special judicial commission is still weighing the evidence and pondering a request for a recount<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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If Obama truly supports popular democracies, then he must leave Afghanistan to the Afghanis, not forcibly propping up Bush\u2019s appointed dictator.<\/font><\/p>\n

On the insanity coming from Republicans, Rachel Maddow exposes their reactions and discusses them with Eugene Robinson.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

They seem to be promoting \u201cliberty\u201d over democracy, but in RepubliSpeak, liberty means the freedom to be exploited<\/em>.<\/font><\/p>\n

Did you notice that almost every example was an outtake from Fox?  This is how they are brainwashing the Republican Base, so eventually, after the lies have been repeated enough, most of the party will be goose stepping to fear of and hate for the Egyptian people.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s no point in updating you on want\u2019s happening in Egypt.  That\u2019s everywhere, but I would like to share a couple of US perspectives that have insufficient coverage in the mainstream.  First, I approve most of Barack Obama\u2019s handling of the revolution.  He offered verbal support for the demonstrators\u2019 ideals, without getting directly involved, making […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}