America is Between Two Revolutions … and the Revival of the Division Project

Sixty years have passed. The United States’ policy has not changed, nor has its mentality of governing by imposing influence and control over the world given that Washington is the center of the universe.

Sixty years have passed since the initial friction between the U.S. and the Egyptian Revolution of July 1952, led by a group of young army officers to get rid of the British occupation and its aides, corrupt politicians. Their aim was the king, who was the head of the government. Now comes Washington’s second clash with an Egyptian revolution, a special kind sparked by young people with the sympathy of the army, which chose to stand beside them in the face of the government’s marred regime. [People from] all walks of life — from politics, economics, education, health, culture, art and social relations — worked on Egypt’s dwarfing and declining role in the region, which included countries that would not have been known as states without the aid and assistance that followed the first Egyptian revolution in 1952.

In dealing with the two Egyptian revolutions, the U.S. administration failed to understand and absorb the reasons for the uprisings and the enthusiasm both in the first revolution, which was carried out by the young people of the military and people from all walks of life who stood behind them, and in the second, which was sparked by the young people and protected by the army. America failed to abandon the mentality and approach of a cowboy who tries to control by force what it believes to be its vital surroundings. The American biosphere is the entire world!

In dealing with the July 1952 revolution, America’s goals were to completely contain the Egyptian Revolution, the people and the new government within the military, economic and cultural system; to begin to engage with the Baghdad Pact to participate in the blockade of the Soviet Union; and to engage in full partnership and coexistence with Israel. The U.S. did not absorb the significance of people, in the face of corruption and injustice, rallying around the army for freedom from British occupation and the yearning for a decent and clean life. Washington wanted to replace the British occupation with another, American, occupation on the pretext of military alliances to counter the threat of communism.

America withdrew its support, and the World Bank declined funding for the [Aswan] High Dam Project. An open confrontation began with the Egyptian Revolution, which succeeded in being drawn into the trap of the 1967 war. The Egyptian revolutionary experience suffered a setback, which led to political, economic, moral and social collapse. Despite the military victory, the October War failed to stop deterioration and decline in Egypt, where a new regime that allied with the United States denied the gains that had been achieved by the July Revolution in all areas. I think this brought [the regime] continuing power, but not that much — he fell in the tragic “podium incident.” And then again, the ruling regime in Egypt under Mubarak did not understand the lesson and proceeded on its way behind America’s illusions. This led it to [have] hostility for its own people, customs and traditions. [Egypt] became hostage to the Mubarak family’s narrow interests in seizing hereditary power.

In dealing with the second Egyptian Revolution of January 2011, which surprised the whole world and the Egyptians themselves, Washington had more control of the world after the collapse of the Soviet Union and after its success in spreading American values and traditions. These ideas dominated the world through its policies and methods of globalization. They became Egypt’s system, took much of its youth and saturated a large share of their ideas. The Egyptian youth’s revolution in all purity and spontaneity was suitable soil for the re-planting of a new colonial thought. But it was in the guise of sympathy with the young revolutionaries who moved without leadership, without strategy and without a plan by insisting only on bringing down the system.

It seems that the performance supervisor of the armed forces has stood by throughout its history and heritage protecting the revolution and saving Egypt — the nation, the state and the people — from entering the ruins of civil war and chaos, which have dominated the landscape of Libya and Yemen and which are now taking place harshly in the Syrian arena. It seems that all this has irritated those who imagined that the fall of the Mubarak regime would mean the collapse of the Egyptian state. The maneuvering and pressure have begun from every direction.

What is being plotted for the young Egyptian revolution? And what is being arranged against the homeland and the Egyptian state, which was known as the first central government in the world?

Over the ages of ancient and modern history, the grave dangers that have faced Egypt have always come from outside military invasions, which often broke down at the hands of the brave sons of Egypt. Or they succeeded in a temporary military victory but never in breaking the people’s political will to live freely. After a while, the invaders were humiliated and left broken. The enemies were known by name, features, nationality, race and ethnicity, so it was easy to stand together, plan, confront and beat them.

Now after the January uprising, Egypt is under serious attack and faces the fiercest battle: It is the interior invasion being carried out by some of its children, who have been very simple and naïve and who are victims in the enemy’s net of traditional disbelief. They are teaching them how to celebrate the precious democratic life. In truth, they are using them as spearheads to spread chaos and destruction in the homeland and to revitalize the ancient projects of division. It is all in order to achieve the purposes of the enemies: to be the only ones who dominate the gentlemen and capabilities of this strategic spot of the world.

Shame on Egypt’s youth for getting so caught behind the nation’s enemies in spreading chaos and dividing the country. Shame on those who fall into the trap despite their knowledge of the pre-planned strategy of creative chaos. The biggest shame is on America, the world’s greatest superpower — but its policies grew to be as much as its size and weight. Shame on Washington for slipping into these despicable plots.