Wiley and
politically very correct Obama has both begun the withdrawal from the disasters
in Iraq and Afghanistan,
and covered his flank by bumping off Osama Bin Laden and quite a few other "enemies".
Given the radical agreement among Republicrats on the essentials of empire
strategy both at home and abroad, there is almost no scenario over the next six
months where a Republican can trump this. The chauvinistic cheers fall on deaf
ears.
Paul and to a lesser
extent Santorum are better positioned to go for Obama's one usable weak spot --
his role as the big business/ banker darling. As Paul will never get the
nomination, we can only hope that Santorum does and that Paul runs as an
independent, making the 2012 presidential elections mildly interesting. But
Obama is again trying to outflank Santorum, this week calling for a tax raise
on the rich. Way to go, Team Empire.
The perennial Ralph Nader's voice-in-the-Democratic-wilderness alone points to the only way out of the crisis: "If you agree that your Republican counterparts in Congress are the most craven, corporatist, fact-denying, falsifying, anti-99 per cent, militaristic Republicans in the party's history, then why are you not landsliding them?" Well, it should be obvious by now, Ralph.
Sadly, following the US primaries, we can only conclude they have very little value for Egyptians now reconstructing their political system after a century and a half of
colonialism. Hence, the startling events of the past few weeks in Cairo: even
as the army, parliament and revolutionaries all attack each other as traitors,
they all support the arrests of National Endowment for Democracy funded "activists",
in the first place, the Independent Republican Institute, the National
Democratic Institute and Freedom House.
In a recent Gallup poll, 74 per cent of Egyptians called for an end to all foreign financing of NGOs and 71 per cent called for an end to all US aid. In a front-page caricature in Al-Akhbar, a seedy Uncle Sam points a Foreign Aid pistol to a confident young Egyptian who calls to his Dignity cannon, "Let's defend ourselves." Apparently Egyptians have had enough of US political coaching.
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