U.S. Disappointment

We are disappointed about not being able to control the Egyptian elections!

This sentiment was confirmed by Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey D. Feltman, who acknowledged the disagreements with Egypt concerning its elections while stressing that America does not want to interfere in Egyptian affairs. This came only hours after leaving a meeting with James Bever, director of USAID in Cairo, announcing with great fanfare that the U.S. has been funding some political movements and civil society organizations in Egypt.

In her book “American Intervention in State Affairs in the Post-Cold War Era,” researcher Safaa Khalifa sheds light on America and its tendency to intervene in foreign countries, particularly after the collapse of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989, which signaled the demise of communism and the beginning of a new era in which strong American dominance would actually decide the fate of the world.

Khalifa adds that since the beginning of the 1990s humanitarianism has become one of the most prominent issues on the list of global concerns. Furthermore, humanitarian intervention has encouraged unilateral actions and has left America more willing to intervene in practically any place and at any time it chooses. Such interventions are always undertaken under the slogan of restoring democracy or out of humanitarian concerns.

America proclaims itself the custodian of human rights in the world and the sole protector of democracy. Yet the U.S. meddles in issues that pertain to other states’ jurisdictions, threatens others’ peace and security and puts its nose in others’ affairs. In order to legitimize its decisions to intervene, the United States justifies its logic with the provisions of Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

By these allegedly humanitarian and democratic means, America imposed political reform projects on the world and assumed a dominant role in order to liberate, particularly after the events of Sept. 11, which represented a serious shift in America’s unjust behavior.

America, your intervention in the affairs of others in the name of humanitarianism is the worst form of human violation!

America, you should be concerned with restoring your home from within, so leave others to the task of reforming their own.

Understand this, as Philo of Alexandria did.