Sunday, February 6, 2011

State vs. Person

The Middle East's crisis has been central to the American Foreign policy soon after Great Britain ceased to its imperialistic dominance after WWII. Gradually, the USA merged its interests with the Arab monarchs and dictators based solely on the influence of separate American governments. From 1945, the Saudis realized the untrustworthy alliance with president Truman after the creation of Israel. That was followed by the American conspiracy to bring the Shah of Iran to power and to topple Nasser in Egypt. Along half a century, the American Foreign Policy in the Middle East operated through the CIA clandestine operations, which spared the American blood to crises like Vietnam, North Korea, and other hot spots. 






The creation of Israel and the support of the Shah by the United States governments led to the Khomenian Islamic revolution in Iran and the counter revolution of the Suni Islamic Brotherhood of Bin Laden. Both revolutions scared the hell of Saddam Hussein, Sadat, Mubarak, Israel, the Saudis, and the USA governments. For the first time since the creation of the USA, George Bush gathered enough courage to remove the Arabian Stalin, which started an new dawn in the Middle East. Now, people sensed the possibility of defeating immortal dictators. However, Hosni Mubarak was truly defeated by his own senility and inability to manage the overwhelmingly growing poverty. As such, the Egyptian uprising was more or less an opportunist upheaval against overly rich but senile Mubarak, overly poor and voluminous police, and unprecedented cell networking and Internet linking of emotions and feelings.
Could it be that the American Constitutional values are permeating through the porous borders, through the electronic highways, through the global trade agreements? 

The toppling of Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milošević, before him, by the American treasure and blood,  was preceded by the collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union and Apartheid in South Africa. Those four global signal the unrelenting trend that globalized the civil rights movements which led to the present crisis in Egypt.

The theater of international human civil rights revolution is expanding with the meeting of minds at the speed of light  for the first time in history.  

Could states and officials ignore the voices of the justice and equality?

The voices of the masses have grown beyond return. The true meaning of a republic; government of the people, by the people, and for the people, may be the only alternative to chaos and anarchy.

Ironically, Israel was founded by individuals who persuaded president Truman to shift the American Foreign Policy against the Palestinians and Arabs. That led to other extremists like Bin Laden and Khomeini who were able to drag the USA into two wars in Iraq and another in Afghanistan.   

In every personal pursuit, the ideologies of the biblical age were the underlying drive to change. Of those, the Muslim's ideology was fueled by the enormous poverty, population growth, and fear of moral decay. The Jewish ideology was oddly fictitious in the form of grabbing land amidst the most volatile part of the world, with the delusion of nuclear protection beyond return.
 

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