Million people in the Middle East want freedom, as once Eastern Europe would have. At that time the West was a role model, now he betrays his values. He makes his stronger enemy: militant Islam. "For 60 years the West has found excuses for the lack of freedom in the Middle East and set up well with her.
But this strategy has not given us more security. In the long run can not buy stability at the expense of freedom." George Bush the Younger has said that. We see that there were not nice words and clever insights that were missing the West. Have lacked the right policies and - much worse - the belief in one's own values.
There are not many places in the world, where Western double standards was as obvious as in the Middle East. In the ears of the 1.5 million Palestinians trapped in Gaza have words of Western freedom and democracy sound about as credible as once Brezhnev's praise of freedom and socialism in the ears of occupied Poland.
Paradoxically, the best allies of the West are the jailers of the Palestinian people, no one received from America has been more foreign aid after Israel and Egypt. Most of the money will go to the military - and the U.S. defense industry. The F-16 jets of the Egyptian air force, which now thundering over the heads of the demonstrators in Cairo's Tahrir Square originate from the United States as well as the M-60 tanks, patrol with which the Israelis in Gaza.
Israel's security, freedom of passage through the Suez Canal and the containment of Islamism - the Mubarak regime provided a valuable service to the West. These are all legitimate interests. But the West and Israel have illegitimate means used to pursue them. The support of a regime that ruled for nearly 30 years of emergency laws, the unperturbed one election after another fake leaves and its recourse to torture and persecution for the infamous police repression dirtiest work of organized criminals, was illegitimate.
But, as Bush has rightly said: "In the long run stability can not be bought at the expense of freedom." The period of rest is over-bought. Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Yemen - perhaps that is the beginning of a new Arab awakening. Maybe it has shaken off shaken the Arab world from the yoke of Western-based autocracies, the same for 20 years, Eastern Europe to Soviet rule.
But this time the West is not on the side of the Herald of Freedom, but one of the allies of the oppressors. It is not a year ago, the German foreign minister's criminal Mubarak's regime for its "long-standing political continuity" and praised Egypt an "anchor of stability in the region," called it.
How the West will heal this wound of the damaged credibility? Not even now that the wind of change has turned into a storm, rouses himself so the center of power in Washington to clear words. The U.S. Secretary of State mutters something of the "regulated transition," and the man on whom all eyes are directed, is silent.
Barack Obama is the desire for freedom that millions of young men in the Maghreb no one, in the tissues of the imperial interests of the West as hostages of history are kept. The remaining charges against the Western Middle East policy, whether it was made in Washington, Paris, London or Berlin, have a few weeks ago put young people in the Gaza Strip, the manifesto have posted on the Internet: "We want to be free We.
want to lead a normal life. We want peace. we asking too much? " To the West could not turn these young people with their question. He has agreed not responsible. The risky consequences of this failure are obvious. For the strongest ally of militant Islamism has always been the West's hypocrisy.
The West has in the Middle East repeatedly denied his own values and, in preference to the autocracy to democracy. But often the effect is what we fought. The autocracy of the Arab regimes should be a bulwark against Islamism? Meanwhile, the threat of democracy to become his allies. Hamas was the Gaza Strip out of free elections.
And as the secular Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt will be even if they only came once in power? This text is benefiting from a debate that at friday. en to a text of the blog "journey" that followed.
But this strategy has not given us more security. In the long run can not buy stability at the expense of freedom." George Bush the Younger has said that. We see that there were not nice words and clever insights that were missing the West. Have lacked the right policies and - much worse - the belief in one's own values.
There are not many places in the world, where Western double standards was as obvious as in the Middle East. In the ears of the 1.5 million Palestinians trapped in Gaza have words of Western freedom and democracy sound about as credible as once Brezhnev's praise of freedom and socialism in the ears of occupied Poland.
Paradoxically, the best allies of the West are the jailers of the Palestinian people, no one received from America has been more foreign aid after Israel and Egypt. Most of the money will go to the military - and the U.S. defense industry. The F-16 jets of the Egyptian air force, which now thundering over the heads of the demonstrators in Cairo's Tahrir Square originate from the United States as well as the M-60 tanks, patrol with which the Israelis in Gaza.
Israel's security, freedom of passage through the Suez Canal and the containment of Islamism - the Mubarak regime provided a valuable service to the West. These are all legitimate interests. But the West and Israel have illegitimate means used to pursue them. The support of a regime that ruled for nearly 30 years of emergency laws, the unperturbed one election after another fake leaves and its recourse to torture and persecution for the infamous police repression dirtiest work of organized criminals, was illegitimate.
But, as Bush has rightly said: "In the long run stability can not be bought at the expense of freedom." The period of rest is over-bought. Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Yemen - perhaps that is the beginning of a new Arab awakening. Maybe it has shaken off shaken the Arab world from the yoke of Western-based autocracies, the same for 20 years, Eastern Europe to Soviet rule.
But this time the West is not on the side of the Herald of Freedom, but one of the allies of the oppressors. It is not a year ago, the German foreign minister's criminal Mubarak's regime for its "long-standing political continuity" and praised Egypt an "anchor of stability in the region," called it.
How the West will heal this wound of the damaged credibility? Not even now that the wind of change has turned into a storm, rouses himself so the center of power in Washington to clear words. The U.S. Secretary of State mutters something of the "regulated transition," and the man on whom all eyes are directed, is silent.
Barack Obama is the desire for freedom that millions of young men in the Maghreb no one, in the tissues of the imperial interests of the West as hostages of history are kept. The remaining charges against the Western Middle East policy, whether it was made in Washington, Paris, London or Berlin, have a few weeks ago put young people in the Gaza Strip, the manifesto have posted on the Internet: "We want to be free We.
want to lead a normal life. We want peace. we asking too much? " To the West could not turn these young people with their question. He has agreed not responsible. The risky consequences of this failure are obvious. For the strongest ally of militant Islamism has always been the West's hypocrisy.
The West has in the Middle East repeatedly denied his own values and, in preference to the autocracy to democracy. But often the effect is what we fought. The autocracy of the Arab regimes should be a bulwark against Islamism? Meanwhile, the threat of democracy to become his allies. Hamas was the Gaza Strip out of free elections.
And as the secular Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt will be even if they only came once in power? This text is benefiting from a debate that at friday. en to a text of the blog "journey" that followed.
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