Reza Shah Pahlevi was a true American success in oppressing the Iranian people from 1953 till the arrival of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1988. In contrast, America failed to do with Naser in his socialization and nationalization revolution of 1952.
Jimmy Carter denied the Shah asylum in the USA but made his loyal friend, Anwar Sadat lend hand to the beleaguered Emperor. Ironically, Sadat inaugurated the son of the Shah as the new Emperor of Iran. Sadat's winning of the Noble Prize and backing of the American government inflated Sadat's ego beyond comprehension. In his last infuriating speech, Sadat declared that all nations have corruption and that he was not in the ranks of the noble prophets of Islam.
Then, Khomeini was amidst his revolution to transform Iran into a new theocracy. Not too long after, Khomeini took care of the business of assassinating Sadat.
America did not give up on bringing down Khomeini. It enlisted Saddam to fight Iran from 1979 till 1988. Later, America fought two wars in order to dwarf Saddam's madness. With Saudis' money and the Israelis' strategists, America sacrificed its treasures and the blood of its people to conduct the proxy wars for the sake of protecting the Saudis, Kuwaitis, and Israelis, and the expense of the scapegoats: the Palestinians.
America did not give up on bringing down Khomeini. It enlisted Saddam to fight Iran from 1979 till 1988. Later, America fought two wars in order to dwarf Saddam's madness. With Saudis' money and the Israelis' strategists, America sacrificed its treasures and the blood of its people to conduct the proxy wars for the sake of protecting the Saudis, Kuwaitis, and Israelis, and the expense of the scapegoats: the Palestinians.
The Palestinian Holocaust at the hands of the Israelis and with the American made weapons gave way to radicals such as Bin Laden and the new movements in Tunisia and Egypt.
Khomeini's phenomenon was replicated by Ahmad Chalabi with a twist of using the enemies of Iraq; Israel, Saudi Arabia, and America, to topple Saddam's regime and to expand the Shiite's dominance. Chalabi's contract with the West was less durable than the Shah's contract. Both ended up with the oppressed anger of the masses in Iran and Iraq. For the first time in history, the Iraqis learn how to commit suicide and organize in defense of their raped culture and histsory.
The lesson of rising to leadership from within never passed to Mohamed ElBaradei. With Noble Prize under his belt, ElBaradei's fool heartedly believed that he could become another American-made poppet. "There is nothing short of Mubarak leaving power that will satisfy the people," Mohamed ElBaradei, the country's leading pro-reform activist told The Associated Press on Saturday. "I think what Mubarak said yesterday was an insult to the intelligence of the Egyptian people."
ElBaradei's ambition to become the next Pharaoh of Egypt might end with the same fate of Benazeer Bhutto of Pakistan, assassinated by the Muslim Brotherhood. That is the most probable outcome of ElBaradie's foolish dream to oppress the Egyptians for decades to come.
A dull-minded bureaucrat, ElBaradei could not infer the inspiration of the Egyptian youths to a leader from their own fiber, which ElBaradei was not. Simply, the man failed to bring Israel to the club of nuclear-free nations. Rather, ElBaradei labored to fatten his resume at the expense of destroying Iraq and appeasing the West. ElBaradei's analysis is one-sided since it assumes that Mubarak was too old to kick back and the Egyptians were too desperate for a straw to keep them afloat. But, ElBaradei is not that straw. The man suffered from the same paranoia that ended Sadat, Shah, and is now finishing Mubarak. Depending on foreign credentials never made heroes. And Egypt is in dire need for one.
The paradox of labeling outsiders "anti-Americans" when they oppose the foreign policy of the American government, while internal opposition to the American government is viewed a healthy sign of democracy, has not confounded Hamas. The Palestinians of Gaza chose their people to oppose the USA for the simplest reason that Israel uses the American weapons and citizens to displace and slaughter the Palestinians.
A dull-minded bureaucrat, ElBaradei could not infer the inspiration of the Egyptian youths to a leader from their own fiber, which ElBaradei was not. Simply, the man failed to bring Israel to the club of nuclear-free nations. Rather, ElBaradei labored to fatten his resume at the expense of destroying Iraq and appeasing the West. ElBaradei's analysis is one-sided since it assumes that Mubarak was too old to kick back and the Egyptians were too desperate for a straw to keep them afloat. But, ElBaradei is not that straw. The man suffered from the same paranoia that ended Sadat, Shah, and is now finishing Mubarak. Depending on foreign credentials never made heroes. And Egypt is in dire need for one.
The paradox of labeling outsiders "anti-Americans" when they oppose the foreign policy of the American government, while internal opposition to the American government is viewed a healthy sign of democracy, has not confounded Hamas. The Palestinians of Gaza chose their people to oppose the USA for the simplest reason that Israel uses the American weapons and citizens to displace and slaughter the Palestinians.
Compared to Gamal Abdel Nasser, ElBaradei's myxedematous outlook and his dull-minded approached the true struggle of millions of young Egyptians, will soon get him to face the same fate of Ahmad Chalabi.
Thus, Egypt's quagmire will remain so, until an new attractive hero is borne locally. One who could chase the Muslim brothers into their underground world, curtail the sensitivity and overreaction of the edgy Coptic freaks, and inspire the homeless and jobless youth with new dawn.
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