Lemme see…
A timeline. (Look it up yourselves.)
1-Breathless cries of relief as “Egypt” brokers a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
2-Hillary Clinton flies to Israel to stop the new/old war from escalating.
3-Said ceasefire disintegrates.
4-Hillary gets busy. Busy doing what? That’s a secret, right? But follow the results to know what’s up. Follow the money, too, if you can find it. It’s there in some form. Bribes, military equipment…something. Bet on it.
5-The ceasefire magically reappears, again “brokered by Egypt.”
And of course, today…
6-Morsi takes draconian steps to consolidate his power in Egypt.
Hmmmm…
Morsi Asserts New Powers and Orders Ex-Officials Retried
Egypt’’s president on Thursday issued constitutional amendments that placed him above judicial oversight and ordered the retrial of Hosni Mubarak for the killing of protesters in last year’s uprising.
Mohammed Morsi also decreed immunity for the Islamist-dominated panel drafting a new constitution from any possible court decisions to dissolve it, a threat that had been hanging over the controversial assembly.
Liberal and Christian members withdrew from the assembly during the past week to protest what they say is the hijacking of the process by Morsi’s allies, who they saw are trying to push through a document that will have an Islamist slant marginalizing women and minority Christians and infringing on personal liberties. Several courts have been looking into cases demanding the dissolution of the panel.
The Egyptian leader also decreed that all decisions he has made since taking office in June and until a new constitution is adopted and a new parliament is elected — which is not expected before next spring — are not subject to appeal in court or by any other authority. He also barred any court from dissolving the Islamist-led upper house of parliament, a largely toothless body that has also faced court cases.
The moves effectively remove any oversight on Morsi, the longtime Muslim Brotherhood figure who became Egypt’s first freely elected president last summer after the Feb. 11, 2011 fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak. They come as Morsi is riding high on lavish praise from President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for mediating an end to eight days of fighting between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers.
Morsi not only holds executive power, he also has legislative authority after a previous court ruling just before he took office on June 30 dissolved the powerful lower house of parliament, which was led by the Brotherhood. With two branches of power in his hands, Morsi has had repeated frictions with the third, the judiciary, over recent months.
Hmmmm…
The king is dead!!!
Mubarak is as good as dead, one way or another. And so is his entourage.
Long live the king!!!
Morsi, of course.
Read on.
Do you believe in coincidences?
I don’t. Not on this scale I don’t.
They say that everything is negotiable. (Until the last thing, of course.) This is a negotiation between and among a number of fabulously wealthy and powerful entities, the U.S. being the most powerful by far. Hosni Mubarak…and by extension, his entire political, financial and bureaucratic apparatus plus most of the Egyptian military…was entirely in the pocket of the U.S. PermaGov. Bought and sold, hundreds of times (and trillions of dollars) over. 20 years’ worth. Then the Arab Spring began, way out of U.S. control. What to do, what to do? Sit back and wait for the scene to shake out…with as much U.S. influence as power, money and murder can buy, of course.
Once it shakes out? Wait for the opportune moment to buy back into the new game.
Morsi?
He knows the game, too.
What he got in return?
Beyond telling, except by what appears in the news.
My bet?
Among other concessions…we’ll see them in the future if we look really hard…he got the right to eliminate the now-useless-to-the-U.S. Mubarak group as thoroughly as he could possibly do so. Whatever protections the U.S. was still holding regarding that group were lifted.
Buh-bye Mubarak, hello the NuBarak.
Mohamed Morsi Isa El-Ayyat.
He plays the game very well, apparently. But no matter how well he plays it the U.S. is in the catbird seat in terms of power. Financial and military power. Bet on that as well. What are his real intentions and what cards does he hold? A good poker player is hard to read. We shall see soon enough. He certainly means to survive if nothing else, and also to remain in power. After that?
We shall see, sooner or later. The U.S. has some good poker players too. Plus it owns many of the dealers.
Let us pray.
Later…
AG
