An American Struggle: America on the Banks of the Nile

“Too many cooks spoil the broth” — truly, all of this American, European and Arab creeping around Egypt after its past events is dirty and ignoble, in part if not in whole. Its function is to turn this big and great country [Egypt] into an arena for regional and international conflict in the same way that happened with Syria. After receiving the Arab League, they all stretched out their hands toward the “Syrian broth”; the result is what we see today.

The early stance taken by U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson is biased to one extreme: the Muslim Brotherhood. Even more strange is the early stance taken by the (pretty) European Union foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton! And it makes the Egyptians and the Arabs feel as though there is an international game being played, set to tear Egypt apart and attach it to Syria, which is led politically by a group of adventurers and teenagers. They drove Syria to conditions that agonize the hearts of sincere and peace-loving onlookers. As such, this Arab nation [Egypt], which was once described as “the beating heart of Arabism,” has become the hateful heart of sectarianism through the conduct of the Supreme Leader [of Iran], Ali Khamenei.

There is no doubt that William Burns, representative of the U.S. Department of State, whom we knew closely as the American ambassador here in the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan, is one of the best diplomats in the world. He has dealt with Egyptian flare-ups in a manner of pure and admirable diplomacy. On the contrary, Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham did not. U.S. President Barack Obama explained that they did not represent himself or his administration, only themselves …. They were sent by, and acting on behalf of, the Republican Party.

Perhaps what John McCain and his companion are demonstrating in their mission, which raised many questions, is how much they have transcended all bounds of decent diplomacy and stuck their noses into internal Egyptian affairs, which are of no concern to them. [Egyptian] President Adly Mansour addressed the two with harsh criticism through his media adviser: “John McCain is distorting the facts. His clumsy statements are unacceptable in both form and substance.” It is known that these two American officials announced in subsequent statements that Egypt is going into civil war!

While Burns carries out his task in Egypt’s capital in tranquility, without parades and without flinging burning embers in every direction, it seems that McCain and his colleague Graham had come to Cairo — with great haste — to sabotage the Democrats and make President Obama and his administration appear unable to resolve any of the erupting crises in the Middle East, from the Iraqi crisis to the Syrian crisis, to the Egyptian crisis, to the Palestinian-Israeli crisis, to the crises in Libya, Tunisia and Yemen. Actually, it’s all very clear: McCain had come to settle his old accounts with the Democratic Party on the banks of the Nile. He came to sabotage and to push Egypt toward an abyss — like the abyss into which Syria fell.

It is known that Europeans have an old inclination for the Muslim Brotherhood. It’s also known that the Americans have inherited the European relationship with the Brotherhood in Egypt and elsewhere and that it depended upon them for amassing its troops in an effort to expel Russia from Afghanistan. It still considers the Brotherhood to be the one force able to keep the Middle Eastern countries and the countries of Northern Africa from falling into the void and plunging into violence and civil war …. But what is not known is that the U.S., before even taking a position, and the EU insist on dealing with Egypt as a country on one hand and an Islamic “gang” on the other. This is what has prolonged this dangerous crisis, and this is what has made the Muslim Brotherhood leaders insist on their unfeasible conditions.