The current Egyptian revolution reminds me of another revolution at another time in history when some very brave and honorable people stood up against tyranny, and took there destiny into their own hands. The other time in history 1776 and the American revolution against the tyranny of King George III of England. You see I have an extensive history with Egyptians and the Middle East. My father in law was a political prisoner in Egypt(he later went on to help design some of the US Army's most potent weapons), I spent a year in the first Desert war as a paratrooper, translator, and tanker, I studied political science under world renown experts Dr.'s Otto Feinstein (Wayne State University), Richard Monsbach, and Sita Ranchod- Nillson (Iowa State University), have appeared on Al Jazeera, Egypt's largest newspaper Al Ahram, and predicted “homegrown terrorism,” and the inevitable demand for and end to American hegemony by the Islamic and Arab world in my 2001 book “Why They Hate Us So Much.” My experience with Egyptians and spending half my life living with Arabs and Moroccan Jews convinced me that Egyptians are a lot like Americans- a good looking people with good sense of humor, very intelligence, and full of healthy pride, and that they would act just as we HAVE under similar circumstances. This has led me to the conclusion, that like the American revolutionaries George Washington, Nathaniel Hale, and Francis Marion (the infamous “Swamp Fox”) the Egyptian people will not stop their battle for totally freedom and autonomy until they get it. Just as these American patriots adhered to the battle cries of “give me liberty or give me death,” “don't tread on me,” and “live free or die”-so do the might Egyptian nation. Just as Francis Marion, the founder of America's super commandos the US Army Rangers was called a terrorist by the British for using “unorthodox” fighting methods, so we see the Egyptian patriots being slandered with the same propaganda. If Americans did not take tyranny and oppression in 1776, why should Egyptians in 2011?! This is why in my book, I noted that America government is known as “The Great Hypocrite” in the Middle East. As was said by Martin Luther King Jr. and his followers during the struggle for African American rights in the 1960's, very often the American government defines justice as just-us (the rich and powerful elite) and all others will just have to suffer. It didn't work then (riots, marches, boycotts) and it won't work now and this is why. DESPITE what is being put out by Hillary Clinton and her cloak and dagger team at the State Department, PLENTY of people saw this day coming. Egyptian human rights activist Shahira Fawzi, ousted CIA Bin Laden desk chief Michael Shuerer, myself, and every Middle Eastern student I lived with in the dorms at Iowa State University all warned the world to stop supporting the Mubarak's, Sadaam Hussein's, and American stooges of the Middle East or suffer the consequences. Still the US government has not learned their lesson as it works night and day to steal the Egyptian revolution by replacing Mubarak with Sulieman. This is the equivalent of replacing George Bush with Dick Cheney at the height of the bailouts and Wall Street collapse of 2008, or replacing Adolph Hitler with Heinrich Himmler at the height of World War II. What would Americans have done if these moves were put into action? Exactly what you see in Egypt today-but a million times MORE violent. To the American people I say do your OWN research on the American government's history in the Middle East and you will understand why the Egyptians are so untrusting of “help” coming out of DC. Examine these facts: -The night of the US “Shock and Awe” bombing campaign against Iraq the Canadian Broadcasting Company's (CBC) news magazine “The Fifth Estate” ran a story showing a high ranking government official supplying Sadaam Hussein with germs for his bio warfare program, chemicals for his poison gas, and technical assistance for his nuclear and scud missile programs-that official Donald Rumsfield. -When the UN overwhelmingly voted to condemn Iraq for using poison gas on the Kurds and Iranians-the US vetoed the resolution (these attacks were used as justification for the Iraqi War invasion of 2003 by the Bush White House.) Yes the same Secretary of Defense who led the illegal invasion of Iraq. Sadaam was our dog and creation then, as “Sulieman The Torturer” is our rabid pitbull now. -When the internationally recognized free and fair Algerian elections didn't go Washington's way in 1991, the US government joined forces with military and stage a coup igniting the Algerian civil war. During that war, the Algerian revolutionaries who won the election free and fair were accused of the massacres of numerous massacres of tens of thousands of civilians. It was revealed by defectors from the US trained Algerian secret police that in fact it was the government that committed the atrocities with the full knowledge of Washington in order to gain more military aid bribes. So when we look around and wonder why the Islamic and Arab world so distrusts us, we have our government to thank for it. Americans need to understand we are in the midst of a GLOBAL VIETNAM, just as the Vietnamese would not accept slavery, nor will the Egyptians. We will find our selves in a deeper hole having gotten our soldiers killed for no good reason, lost our economy, and killed even more Arab and Muslim civilians than we already have spurring even more hatred and retribution from those countries. Do we really want to open up war on another front in Egypt? Do we really want Egyptians to whole heartedly reach the conclusion we are the enemy? At what point do we understand the US is 4% of the world's population and not 94% of the world's population? DC is drunk with arrogance, corruption, and greed. It is polluted with sociopaths incapable of telling the truth or purging itself of its racist and imperial designs. The Egyptian people are going to get the same thing from Hillary Clinton and DC that Americans got from the Department of the Interior with the BP disaster in the Gulf, FEMA at Katrina, the Bush administration on WMD, and the SEC with Bernie Madoff and the Wall Street bailouts-lies, deceit, and backstabbing. If Washington will betray Americans as blatantly as it has, what do you think the chances of it being honorable with Egyptians? It is a good thing the Egyptians KNOW this and are acting accordingly. Elfa Mabruke Egypt! (Arabic for “A thousand congratulations!”) You do all freedom loving people around the world proud. ** Jerome Almon is a veteran of the Gulf War, where he served with the XVIIIth Airborne Corps as a paratrooper, tanker, explosives expert, and translator as documented in the A&E series “The Combat Engineer.” He is the author of the book “Why They Hate Us So Much: 100 Facts About the Middle East You Don't Know But Should” and is responsible for changes in the Department of Homeland Security's US-Canada border policy. He currently is the CEO of a multifacted entertainment company based in the United States and is frequently quoted. BM
