... another coup.

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Despite what appears to be the installation of a new government in Egypt this past week, and change is supposed to be good these days, it is sad that the principles of an administration under the rule of civic, political and other rights, the rule of law and right to property are lost on the current power polity in that country in view of the kind of militarism with theocracy on its face that have presented themselves to the eyes of the world at present.  It is difficult to mention here what the hope of the Morsi regime actually has been in view of the gridlock he found himself in once appointed to office.  Political infighting had his political agenda to bring constitutional principles in practice to his region visibly stymied and in gridlock for some time, enough time for his political and other opponents to gather strength and stir polemics against him.  People like me know that Morsi wished to, among other things, build upon the idea of resolving the Palestinian and other anti – Israel questions within his country in view of a proverbial getting on with it, and it is obvious that in the type of revolutions he provoked that political forces in opposition to him were just as, if not even more powerful in their ability to have the populace rise up and in their capacity and ability to stir controversy within the country in giving him the boot, and then in replying to a call created by a power vacuum in seizing the political and administrative dais.

 

That the Morsi’s of the world in Arabia are more Western in their world view and political orientation is dangerous to powerful Arab interests, including those of petrol politics applying to the strategic control of various waterways and so forth, and who and how access to those things is paid for through Egyptian coffers.  Aspirants under these conditions want to have control over state coffers and the ability to tax the value of the “patrimoine” that’s in any way involved in the global money tree.  This not only included petrol politics, but tourism, education, various areas of international and even regional commerce and their economic elements as first monitored and then controlled by the state.  The idea that the U.S. Republican regime had under the president Reagan, that even the Carter regime in the late 1970’s shared was one of equalizing and helping to better organize Arab states without co – opting them at the same time.  The Arabs in typical fashion took this as a severe offense:  At the time this was part and parcel of the war in Lebanon and today has resulted in widespread unrest in places in Arabia where politics are in flux, especially in North Africa

where there is a history of power struggles and administrative, ministerial and bureaucratic jostling and infighting that is apparently the nature of the game at this point, just as it has been for years, often with those in the military wielding power in the end.  This has been the legacy of the abandonment by the Egyptian regime of the state – level fight to eliminate Israël and subsequent violent death of Anwar Sadat who championed this controversial strategy on the part of Islamic regimes.  Other politics, including those of hydrocarbons, have played a role in this spending of political currency through increasingly encouraging power grabbing in a country that is weak constitutionally and over – armed, and subject again and again to the fact that everyone who is anyone in the Arab world has connections to the fiercely anti – everything Hezbollah, the activism of which starts in the violent capitols of the Middle East, Beirut, Baghdad, and Kabul, and now Damascus and Cairo.  The influence of the old guard of the Hezbollah as a critically and powerfully divisive political force is not to be underestimated, nor is the power of same to secretly enlist everywhere those with sympathies lying in orthodox Islam and its current place in the world as promoting violence and terroristic tendencies and acts against the kind of pretentious elitism that is approved of and promoted in places like Iran at this point.  Forget that such places are geographical at this point and delve for yourself simply into the ideas that the leadership in such countries wishes its territory to represent a nihilistic and destructive idea or set of ideas without regard to territory.  Such is an obvious and evident detail as to the intent of those seizing power in Egypt at this point as influenced by divine clerics in the Middle East and elsewhere in the kind of ruthless and destructive “us and them” endgame that is influenced by public Islamic dogma at this point.  This begs the question about there being even a slight hope that Morsi and his people remaining alive at this point into the future.  Trial announcements and so forth emit for people like me the overall public cynicism and tyrannical attitude of the leaders of the present Egypt coup in the face of reasonableness, skepticism and the more complicated character of what democracy can be, even in the beginning, and its call for people to actually use their heads under the present political conditions in the region. 

Controversial "New York Times" article.