RELIGIOUS WAR IN EGYPT

This thing going on in Egypt is difficult for people to understand. From what I hear on TV and read in newspapers and magazines, it seems the only people who really understand what is going on are in the White House.  The people of Egypt fought hard to have a election—a democratic process. They won and an election was held. The politician who won was Mohammed Morsi, a member of the Muslin Brotherhood. Before the election, he had promised to install a peaceful secular government—one that would shed the mantle of hate for Christians, i.e. cooperate with the west.

He lied. The people elected him but he broke his promise and maintained his affiliation with religious terrorist groups. President Obama supported his election for the same reason the people supported his election and in addition because his electoral promised to turn from Caliphate to democracy.  This change in government format represented a major victory for democracy, which far outweighed the results of any specific election.

People in the United States should be familiar with politician betrayal similar to that of Morsi. We have Gov. Scott Walker and Gov. Pat McCrory, for example, that lied to the people to be elected, then used the power of their office to destroy the “fair” process that elected them with voter suppression. In addition, this Republican governor thing is happening against a background of radical right wing evangelical Christians trying to take over government function with such things as Office of Christian Initiative in the Bush white House, take over of public schools, take over of school boards, woman’s health issues, gay rights issues, and re-segregation. The names associated with these activates are high in public recognition: Sam Brownback, Mike Huckabee, Ralph Reid, Pat Roberson and failed presidential candidate Rick Santorum.  Electing Santorum to be President of the United States would have been equivalent to electing Mohammed Morsi in Egypt—had that happened, like the people in Egypt, I would have been in the streets throwing rocks.

Senator’s McCain and Lindsey Graham are on their way to Egypt with the blessings of Obama to try to broker a peace between the Military, Morsi, and the people. It is an attempt to “save the democratic election”. This is another indication of Obama’s greatness; he is willing to let someone else take center stage. He is using their ego, they would be heroes if they solved the diplomatic problem, but of course, he is not risking much because the chance of that happening is very small. Morsi is a religious nut just like those we have in the United States. The fight is between the people and the Morsi supporters, who are religiously driven. I would be like trying to tell Sam Brownback, Mike Huckabee, Ralph Reid, Pat Roberson and Rick Santorum that “God” has no place in government, the old separation of church and State argument Thomas Jefferson so eloquently managed McCain and Graham are not Thomas Jeffersons. The press is treating their trip as if they are “charging into battle on fire breathing white steeds”. When the fail, the media should not ignore the egg on their face.

There is only one solution to the Egyptian problem. The people have to suffer food shortages, long gas lines, soaring unemployment and massive public protests to fuel the defeat of Morsi supporters, and elect a sectarian leader to replace the military government that is now in place. They, not us, have to do it. Sadly, blood will have to be spilled in yet another religious war.

As I blogged before, freedom for a country in the Middle East, just like any other sovereign nation, has to be real freedom and not just a branch of the Republican controlled business empire of the United States. The countries of the world are weary of the United States treating them as lesser subunits under the umbrella of hegemony. In the Middle East, it has been oil, in Central America, it was bananas, in South America, it was minerals, and in Mexico and the Far East, it was cheap labor. Unfortunately, that is the image McCain and Graham have of the world. Isn’t it about time we follow President Obama’s lead and try human dignity and human rights?  

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