US Wants To Replace A Few Puppet Dictators With Elected Puppets
http://www.myquran.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-12507.html
Anita Silalahi
In a speech of breathtaking hypocrisy and
arrogance the US
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice this week spelled out to her audience in
Cairo her vision for change in the Middle East. She described some
political changes in different Arab regions and portrayed these selective
anecdotes as signs of liberty and democracy sweeping the region. The
most quoted section was as follows:
"For 60 years, my country, the United States,
pursued stability
at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and
we achieved neither. Now we are taking a different course."
Certainly it is true that for 60 years the USA
has pursued a
course of supporting tyrannical rulers who oppress their people and serve
US interests well. Britain, France and other European powers have also
done the same for a longer period. However Rice omitted her government's
continued support for tyrants across the Muslim world. Only this week
the International Herald Tribune alleged that Uzbek troops, ordered by
President Karimov to massacre thousands in Andijan in May 2005, were
trained and equipped by the USA. In a similar vein the Scotsman newspaper
has reported that British troops have held joint training with the
Uzbeks. She omits staunch support of the US for Pervez Musharraf (indeed it
is the only support he enjoys from any quarter) with whom the US allied
for its massacres of Muslims in Waziristan and Wana.
Her hypocrisy further showed when she endorsed
Egypt's dynasty of
US backed dictators, whose treachery is well known to the Ummah, when
she said:
The United States values our strategic
relationship and our
strengthening economic ties with Egypt. And American presidents since Ronald
Reagan have benefited from the wisdom and the counsel of President
Mubarak, with whom I had the pleasure of meeting earlier today.
.And just three decades ago, it was
Anwar Sadat who showed the
way forward for the entire Middle East -- beginning difficult economic
reforms and making peace with Israel.
It should not surprise us that despite her
admission that western
interference, the cause of so much misery to millions over decades by
the initiation of and on going support for these regimes, has failed she
insists that the US will go on interfering in the region to fashion
'elected puppets' regimes from elections that will careful exclude any
real opposition to the US.
The Muslims of the world want liberation.
Liberation from
dictators like Mubarak, Karimov and Musharraf. Liberation from colonisation of
our politics, economics, social life, education and popular culture.
Liberation from the brutal occupation of Iraq,
Afghanistan and Palestine.