By Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
"In a sane world, the White House would back people power in the Middle East unconditionally. But Barack Obama is boxed in by (to cut to the chase) Israel and oil. People power only fuels Israel's paranoia about encirclement by "hostile" forces, and the Washington imperative for self-interest trumps the very ideals that the US president was championing in Cairo less than two years ago.....
Anybody believing that Washington's "orderly transition" led by Vice President Omar Suleiman (aka Sheikh al-Torture, according to protesters and human-rights activists) could satisfy Egyptian popular will believes Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin could have gotten away with a facelift......"
Asia Times
"In a sane world, the White House would back people power in the Middle East unconditionally. But Barack Obama is boxed in by (to cut to the chase) Israel and oil. People power only fuels Israel's paranoia about encirclement by "hostile" forces, and the Washington imperative for self-interest trumps the very ideals that the US president was championing in Cairo less than two years ago.....
Anybody believing that Washington's "orderly transition" led by Vice President Omar Suleiman (aka Sheikh al-Torture, according to protesters and human-rights activists) could satisfy Egyptian popular will believes Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin could have gotten away with a facelift......"
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