“Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Tuesday that Egypt is still very much on its way to building a modern democratic country that satisfies all Egyptians and meets their demands and future aspirations. According to a statement made by the army’s official spokesman, Sisi said that Egypt’s security and peace lie in an army that is strong, able and prepared to exert its utmost effort with devotion, sincerity and honor…………… He added that the army is working hard to face the challenges and that “it can do the impossible” …………..”
As he said: “it can do the impossible”. But outside the battlefield. It, the military, already has. It has killed thousands of Egyptians on the street, sentenced many hundreds to death, imprisoned tens of thousands, established kangaroo courts to terrorize political opponents, without much objection from the so-called “international community” (that being the usual joint definition for the European Union and the United States).
That besides losing almost every single foreign war it has waged, maybe with the exception of the famous War on Pigs. It has convinced enough Egyptians, especially among the delusional not-so-liberals, that Egypt will move forward by going backwards. That Mubarak-ism with all Mubarak’s cronies and minions and oligarchs and generals but without Mubarak himself is indeed revolutionary. Many foolish or simply self-serving ambitious liberals in Egypt now pretend that they believe it. Even though the generals don’t believe it, nor do their financiers in the Gulf (otherwise they would not finance them).
I wonder what we (or whoever is around) would be saying, thirty years from now, when Egyptians take to Tahrir Square (maybe with a new name: Sisi Square) to demand departure of the dictator.
Cheers
mhg
