http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/jul/01/honduras-zelaya-coup-obama
This also happened in Egypt. Sometimes the government
can support a coup while officially not endorsing it.
There are other times when the US projects certain
values pertaining to Human Rights and yet is allied with regimes that
systematically violate them. You can be sure the media won't cover it and if
they do, it will be spun.
Other times there are countries that grow sick and
tired of the hypocrisy. The United States has long worked through the Egyptian
military. This dates back to Sadat and the rise of Mubarak. But now Al-Sisi who
will likely become the new leader may turn his back on the United States. After
almost forty years of meddling, the Egyptian military may have had enough. Time
will tell, but Egypt may turn to Russia. Getting a backbone can be awfully
dangerous. Egyptian generals can easily be replaced.
Putin has no designs on Egypt or stirring up the Middle
East but he'd sure like to stick his finger in America's eye. They've given him
every reason to.
This would prove a stunning blow to the US-Israel
front. The Camp David Accords have been the backbone of the stability (albeit
shaky) of the Middle East. There can't be a major anti-Israel war without Egypt
in the game. In 1979 Sadat pulled them out and lost his life for it.
The militarists in Washington are having Jimmy Carter
flashbacks. Carter likewise 'pulled back' from some of America's relationships
in Africa and other parts of the world. He wasn't overly impressed with some of
the relationships his predecessors had cultivated. The United States was tight
with some very nasty regimes.
I'm afraid morality has little place in the rough and
tumble world of geo-politics. Machiavelli and Kaplan's pagan ethos are what is
required to run an empire.
Of course such a pagan ethos (which would include a
Constantinian mindset) is incompatible with the Kingdom mandate. Christians
cannot hold these powers and retain any modicum of integrity. If a Christian
actually became president (which I contend is not possible) and actually tried
to bring an end to the bloodshed and criminality, he would quickly suffer a
heart attack or perhaps die in a plane crash. Whatever the method, he wouldn't
last long.
Since the end of the Cold War the United States has
looked to nations like Uganda, Kenya, and later Ethiopia and Rwanda to fulfill
its policy goals in the Central and East Africa.
The Christian Right has won a victory in Uganda.
President Museveni has signed anti-gay legislation and has placed the US State
Department in an awkward situation. If past is precedent, some noise will be
made but little will be done. This was the pattern followed during most of the
1980's with regard to South Africa. Every once in awhile someone in the State
Department will speak out about Saudi Arabia, but the criticisms are empty and
hollow.
But...Obama may follow the Carter path and pull back a
little from Uganda. And yet like Carter even a president is limited in what he
can do. There are too many forces at work...corporate, intelligence and military
that are already dependent on the Ugandan relationship.
Sometimes it seems like the spokespersons make the
news, but the Empire marches on even if the corporate media turns a blind eye.
Speaking of the corporate media, they've done their
utmost in failing to cover what is really happening in East Africa. Kenya,
Uganda and Ethiopia are all being used by the United States in this war which
is only partly about Al Qaeda. There are bigger things at stake like trade,
resources and geopolitics.
But what is most striking by reading some of these
articles, and some of them are several years old is that this will only
generate more Blowback.
Enemies are being made and in some cases the problems
are being agitated by blunders. Obama's administration is taking out people
with little accountability. The rest of the world is taking note, but the
American public knows little about it unless it somehow fits in with the FOX
coverage regarding Benghazi or Bill O'Reilly's Super bowl interview with Obama.
Bush's team completely bungled their Somali plan, ran
out the democratically elected government (the first in decades) and then
realized these 'Islamists' weren't the same as the Al Qaeda brand of Islamism
and worked to re-install them.
Can you even imagine how Americans would react if other
nations were toppling state governments, assassinating citizens, kidnapping
people off the streets, launching drone strikes, stealing resources etc....?
All things to consider. It's all being done in our
name.
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