Mubarak deployed the military to put down the revolt since the police force was not enough, but the military didn't really do anything. I'm thinking that since Egypt's military is so heavily funded by the United States that the CIA may have secretly taken command over the military to prevent this thing from getting really bloody. Anyone else want to speculate as to what is going on?
Yes. That's it exactly. We "secretly took command". Brilliant.
1) The CIA has been in to that sort of thing since the Church Commission in the 1970s.
2) I don't think it's clear we favor Mubarak staying in power.
3) If history is any guide, the CIA is generally so ham-handed in its operations that if they were involved in this Egyptian thing, EVERYONE would know about it (e.g. Bay of Pigs).
We are the invisible hand behind the Egyptian military and also funding the dissenters in the streets. We thank you taxpayers for paying for it all. It's a great business.
You can now go back to arguing about the stock market!!
Well, lets hope the military keep their powder dry.
America always naively imagines some sort of democracy is the outcome of overthrowing dictatorships in areas like the Middle East, Far East and Africa.
Dream on - I can’t think of many democracies in these areas after years of violent upheavals.
What seems the likely outcome to the turmoil in Egypt could be a re-run of what happened in Algeria in the late 80’s.
There - also a dictatorship was overthrown, but the resulting first round of ‘democratic’ elections was won by the extremist Islamic Salvation Front, (the Egyptian equivalent is the Muslim Brotherhood) which wanted to impose Sharia law.
Opposed to Muslim totalitarian rule, the army cancelled the elections and seized power.
About 150,000 died in the resulting civil war - but the army is still in power, thank goodness.
It’s all rather worrying, because I feel it only needs a spark somewhere for the markets to panic and start the ball rolling for the world to tumble prematurely into the disastrous international financial collapse that’s hovering just over the horizon.
I hope Egypt isn’t the catalyst.
It is highly unlikely that the CIA is manipulating the Egyptian military. They are way too busy setting up the return of Baby Doc to power in Haiti.
Hezbollah has spies in the CIA, Dimona, Pentagon, White House, Mossad, UK MI5, and in every Army in the Middle East. That's why the Iraq regime is imploding now and Afghanistan/Pakistan is a total loss for the US.
does anyone know? wrote:
Mubarak deployed the military to put down the revolt since the police force was not enough, but the military didn't really do anything. I'm thinking that since Egypt's military is so heavily funded by the United States that the CIA may have secretly taken command over the military to prevent this thing from getting really bloody. Anyone else want to speculate as to what is going on?
I don't think you need to look for a conspiracy here, especially given the seemingly diverse demands and affiliations of the protesters. I think it is rarely beneficial for a military to attack its own citizens.
Mubarak set up his Golden Parachute with Israel decades ago. Mubarak is ready to fly El Al to Tel Aviv to join Natan Sharansky and other Nazis.
A Skeptic wrote:
1) The CIA has been in to that sort of thing since the Church Commission in the 1970s.
2) I don't think it's clear we favor Mubarak staying in power.
3) If history is any guide, the CIA is generally so ham-handed in its operations that if they were involved in this Egyptian thing, EVERYONE would know about it (e.g. Bay of Pigs).
Excuse me, 1) should read "The CIA has NOT been into that sort of thing since the Church Commission in the 1970s."
And as far as the military firing on their own citizens being unproductive . . . seemed to work for these guys:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiannanmen_Square_Massacre"CIA may have secretly taken command over the military to prevent this thing from getting really bloody".
The CIA doesn't give a crap if it turns bloody.
The US has compromised all of the top military in Egypt via a steady diet of bribes. The scenario is that it will be announced that the miltary is taking over temporarily to restore order and then either they will retain power indefinitely or another US puppet will be installed.
All this is done to further the aims of Israel. The US pols do not care one bit about Egypt or her 80 million people -- all about pleasing the Israel Lobby so that they can keep their cushy positions without any hassle
Shrubb, you are so naive.
You think a democratic election results in totalitarian rule and a military takeover the deposes the democratically elected party (at the direction of the Zionist puppet masters)is worthy of a "thank goodness".
God help you