The US foolishly refuses to learn the lesson from history in connection with its relationship with many world's countries, such as Egypt under ex-president Hosni Mubarak and Iran under the late Shah of Iran. Accordingly and regardless of its claims about democracy, the US has been infamous for lulling and pampering dictatorships and religious fascism. US President Barack Obama must have ignored a warning from Minister of Defence Gen. Abdul-Fattah el-Sissi over Washington's attitude towards the Egyptian revolution on June 30. In an interview with the Washington Post, Gen. el-Sissi firmly reminded Obama that he had given his back to the Egyptian people and that they would not forgive him for that. El-Sissi's warning to Obama is unprecedented in the history of the US's relationship with allies or developing nations, especially those states, which largely depend on Washington's military and economic aid. In its bid to build strategic relationship with developing nations in particular, Washington would lull and fondle dictator regimes and in the meantime outrageously ridicule the people's collective psyche. Worse, the US would channel huge economic, military and financial aid to any dictatorial regime only to help it deepen authority and tighten control on its oppressed people. Washington had previously caught guilty of unpardonable sin during the Iranian revolution led by late Khomeni in the 1970s against late Shah of Iran—one of the US great allies in the region. The Shah was deposed after decades in power. Likewise, ex-president Hosni Mubarak basked luxuriously in the US economic and financial aid over 30 years. Mubarak exploited the US money and assistance to form a small group of wealthy businesspeople, who greedily took it all, and throwing crumbs reluctantly to millions of Egyptians, who were—and still are—labouring under sordid conditions. To make matters worse, Washington and its satellite EU states, outrageously tolerated the Mubarak regime's systematic abuse of human rights and social justice in Egypt. The humiliating sting caused to the Egyptian nation became more painful when the doors of the White House and the US Congress would regularly be flung wide open to receive ex-president and his cohorts. Mubarak had to reciprocate and acknowledge Washington's help to silence voices of protest among his people; he showed such an enthusiasm and sincere understanding of the US strategy and motives in the Middle East and also far off that Washington (and Tel Aviv) acknowledged him as a big ally. Three former US presidents, including George W. Bush, who understandably scowled at Mubarak too late; hugged the ex-president tightly and warmly; and they gave many nods for his domestic policies. When the Egyptian people revolted against Mubarak and his regime on January 25 two years ago, US President Barack Obama screwed up an unprecedented kind of courage and ordered Mubarak to step down 'immediately'. Obama was not responding to the Egyptians' agitating impulse; but rather because Mubarak's validity expired. Also Obama was tough and impatient with the departure of Mubarak after his administration, in collaboration with CIA, had confirmed to him that a new type of dictatorship had been groomed to take over in Egypt. The Islamist fascism led by the fundamentalism Muslim Brotherhood was Washington's new pick. Obama's palpable joy to the ascent of MB to the throne in the country shook the US's credibility more violently than it had suffered before under Mubarak. Obama, in typical US's insulting attitude towards the feeling of any nation in favour of dictatorial or fascist regime, scowled at the decision by millions of Egyptians to oust Morsi. The Egyptians took to the street on June 30 after Morsi failed miserably to help accomplish their aspirations and ambitions. Nor did Morsi help rekindle the dim hope of the devastated Egyptians to dream of a better life, in which social justice, dignity and freedom are the chief principles. The image Obama had painted in Muslim countries, including Egypt, for being a peace-preacher in a region said to be the den of bearded beasts, was devastated. Confused and being unable to divorce his administration from the MB-led Islamists in the region, Obama meekly appealed to EU allies and US Congressmen to intervene and help him protect the guardians of his Islamist project in ME from falling down catastrophically. The Egyptians had mud splashed on their wounds when the US president, shocked and reluctant, refused to acknowledge their will and demands. But keen to grasp the stick from the middle, Obama distanced his administration from any violent statement his envoys to Egypt would give. That was why ahead of their visit to Cairo early this month, the confused US President Barack Obama disowned US Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham. The US White House released a statement to confirm to Cairo that the two US Senators were representing themselves—not the White House—and that their conclusion of their meetings and talks would not express Obama's views of what is going on in Egypt. To the best of any one's knowledge, there is no precedent, in which a US administration has ever differed with a US senator(s) over its leaning towards a pivotal and central regional ally such as Egypt. McCain rudely ignored the feelings of millions of Egyptian people, who took to the streets on June 30 to oust the Muslim Brotherhood and president Mohamed Morsi from power for their year-long miserable policies, locally and internationally. Howling in a press conference he led in Cairo, McCain said that a military coup had overthrown president Mohamed Morsi. With his colleague Graham standing abstractedly nearby, McCain urged the release of MB's leaders and settling differences over power with the overthrown president. McCain, who had sneaked in through the Syrian border to pat on the heads of anti-Bashar Assad opposition, including al-Qaeda's fighters, said: "The next few weeks are critical in Egypt as to whether we see a real resumption of violence." McCain did not come to Cairo to examine suggestions to help broker peace between the majority of the Egyptians and the breakaway group of the Muslim Brotherhood. The US Senator came to beat the drums of a civil war, the flames of which would rage far and wide across the Egyptian borders and by all means cost Obama his presidency prematurely.
