Pro Western?
You know what folks, Hosni Mubarak wasn’t perfect. I’m sure the guy probably did a lot of things I wouldn’t like. The fact of the matter is, there is only so much a leader of places like Egypt can do.
They can’t rule like our governments do in the West. They must keep a tight reign on their people, or they lose power. In the traditional sense, that sound’s very self-service for them. And yes it is. And if that’s all we want to focus on, then perhaps we could celebrate the fall of a man like Mubarak. Then what?
You see, this goes beyond the benefits to Mubarak. It goes to the central question, is stability in and of itself a service to a nation like Egypt? Is plight of the Egyptian man on the street going to be better if there is a coup, a mini or maxi revolution every few years? I seriously doubt it.
Mubarak was pro-Western. He brought stability to Egypt. He didn’t appear to be extremely oppressive, other than to try to hold the place together. I’m not sure what more we can hope for in places like Egypt.
By signaling that the U. S. was sympathetic to those who wanted to overthrow Mubarak, we may have help enormously to destabilize a nation that was existing in relative peace.
By acting the part of a simpleton, our government may have helped usher in a collapsed stability and chaos that will last for decades in Egypt, expanding out negative reverberations in all directions.
In Community Organizer College, they may not have had foreign policy 101. What we’re left with is a president who on that subject, is a big fat zero, and a nation dangerously close to becoming one itself.
“By acting the part of a simpleton, our government may have helped usher in a collapsed stability and chaos that will last for decades.”
EXCELLENT analysis!
Remember Tito and Yugoslavia. Worship of democracy is as dangerous as worship of king or dictator. Replacing one self-serving tyrant with a self serving tyranny composed of millions of individual self-serving elements is not always a good idea.
Leadership, whether a single individual, a committee or a parliament MUST know and behave as if it is ACCOUNTABLE to God. Otherwise, that leadership begins to amass power, working to elevate itself to the status of a god. Once that is accomplished, it sets its sights on replacing the one true God.
Better ruled by a godly king or dictator than an ungodly populace. If you disagree, consider three items.
John Adams quote, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Yugoslavia since Tito.
The French Revolution’s war against God and the subsequent Reign of Terror.