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Obama's suspicious silence
Published in The Egyptian Gazette on 27 - 02 - 2011

CAIRO - US President Barack Obama should be accused of tolerating the savage brutality of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Neither he nor his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton batted an eyelid when they were informed that this North African megalomaniac had deployed African mercenaries to assassinate his people, who have revolted, in a bid to silence them forever.
Obama broke his suspicious silence only on Thursday, the day when this article was written. He noted that all options were open to deal with the Libyan crisis on the ground.
He didn't even blink when the press, human rights organisations, Libyan citizens and foreign eyewitnesses warned of a bloodbath in Libya, after Gaddafi refused to accede to the revolution.
More than 1,000 Libyans, including children, have reportedly been killed and tens of thousands injured since the outbreak of demonstrations there on February 17.
Like Washington, its European allies weighed their reaction very carefully and took an outrageously long time to warn that Gaddafi's use of force against his own people was ‘unacceptable'.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, currently suspected of crimes of a sexual nature and a good friend of the crazy leader, has appealed meekly for an end to the hostilities, because he's worried that the Libyan oil and natural gas supplied to his country might be disrupted.
Mrs Clinton reappeared again to show off her new taste in fashion for the pressmen and to limply say that the Gaddafi-inspired genocide of his people was ‘unacceptable'. Washington and EU member states are not worried, as long as Gaddafi ensures that the oil and natural gas supplied to their countries won't be interrupted – at least during the cold winter.
Acting inhumanely, Washington and its European allies announced plans to evacuate their citizens from Libya. They did not seem concerned about the plight of panic-stricken Libyans, pleading for someone to save them from their insane leader, who vows to launch a counter-revolution and torch his opponents.
Washington and its European allies have refused to ask Gaddafi to listen to his people and step down. This knee-jerk reaction must have been prompted by Gaddafi's son, Seiful Islam, threatening to bring the temple tumbling down on the heads of everyone at home and overseas.
Seiful Islam, who appears to have inherited his father's megalomania in abundance, has threatened that, if the demonstrations don't stop, he will blow up the oil and gas fields in Libya.
The father, who was declared the King of African Kings, got Seifui Islam to rule Libya on his behalf, whenever he (Gaddafi) was busy touring other African countries.
Booing Washington's outrageous response to the Libyans' pleas for help, Arab nations recall how tough and arrogant US officials like Obama and Mrs Clinton were towards the regime of ex-President Hosni Mubarak.
Hours after the outbreak of the youth revolution in Egypt, Washington began given making daily statements, in which it feigned revolutionary anger and sympathy for the Egyptians.
Washington mounted unbearable pressure on Mubarak to step down and save his people, regardless of the fact that the Egyptian Army swiftly deployed to maintain law and order, protecting demonstrators, who didn't fire a single bullet.
The Armed Forces guaranteed the safety of the youngsters camping out in Al Tahrir Square in Cairo and elsewhere across the country.
US Congressmen entered the fray by calling upon Mubarak to go. The former President insultingly claimed that his departure would destabilise Cairo and that the Americans knew little about his nation's culture.
The former President was also said to have been contacted by US and European officials, who prodded him to leave.
Despite Mubarak's key role in preserving the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty and his influence in the Palestinian reconciliation talks, the US disdainfully let him down. Oil is more precious than peace.
Washington and its European allies appear to be ready to tolerate hostilities in Arab countries, provided that the supply of Arab oil and natural gas isn't disrupted. This should mean that the US is still enthusiastic about abandoning its decades-long support for dictators, potentates and megalomaniac leaders in Arab countries, at the expense of the interests of these Arab nations.


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