EVERY one is wondering where the President is in the ongoing events that have reached the level of civil disobedience in some governorates of the country. Where is he in the chronic diesel crisis that threatens not only public transport but also the agriculture and industrial sector? Where is he with the continuous fall, injury and illegal detention of revolutionaries and children? Where is he with the death of an impoverished child vendor, who was shot in the heart without his family hearing about any compensation, for whom he was the breadwinner? Where is he in the chronic security crisis? Where is he in the terrible economic problems that threaten Egypt with bankruptcy? The answer is simple: President Morsi is fully occupied firming up the Muslim Brothers' strong grip on the country in preparation for the parliamentary elections. He is fully aware of the deterioration of his popularity and that of his group among the Egyptians to the level, endangering not only their goal of obtaining a comfortable majority at the coming parliament but also in completing his term. Consequently, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group, party and presidency have started a systematic process of replacing senior officials in the different governmental departments and governorates with MB members. The start was the Cabinet reshuffle that offered the basic services portfolios to some MB members. Then, came the massive changes of senior officials in different ministries. The whole idea is to strengthen their presence in rule regardless of the public anger against this practice and their complete neglect of the chronic troubles afflicting the Egyptians since the MB took rule. This explains why every day the MB spends in rule, the group loses more supporters at a time its members believe they are gaining more power in continuing to rule the country. Some analysts believe it a short-sighted policy, while others claim that it is religious fascism and an attempt to abort the democratic experiment in Egypt by preventing possible rotation of authority between the different political parties in the best interests of Egypt. Apparently, the Muslim Brotherhood is obsessed with their dream of creating a religious rule or even restoring the old Islamic Caliphate that came to an end with the defeat of the Ottoman Caliphate in World War I. The question is what is the aim of this impossible outdated dream? Firstly, Egypt would never accept the application of religious rule and becoming another Iran or Pakistan. Secondly, the project of the Caliphate was replaced by the Arab nationalism scheme launched by President Nasser in the mid-20th century, in which each country enjoyed independent sovereignty over specific piece of land with known borders. However, there is still the dream of bringing together the Arab countries in a unified bloc under the Arab League. Even this has seemingly stalled because of the inability of the rulers to agree on having unified Armed Forces defence or unified economic policies, not to mention a unified currency. So how could the MB imagine the response of the different Arab and Muslim rulers and people to coming under the group's rule of an Islamic Caliphate today? Therefore, the Muslim Brothers are just after an illusion and a dream not even being shared by their peers in Egypt so how could they convince other Arab and Muslim citizens to come under their umbrella? And how can they convince the different Muslim sects of Sunnis and Shi'ites to become united under their rule? Will the world powers let this project be unfolded in such a way as would repeat history of Arab invasions? This merely a silly ploy and the only way to get out of this trouble is to speed up in aborting this stupid plot against Egypt and restore the revolution to its right course. Sooner or later, MB rule will come to an end due to the wrong and stupid direction chosen by the MB leaders to strengthen their presence in rule. They could have saved this effort of forcing their presence on every authority by launching some giant national plans to help Egypt get out of her chronic socio-economic crises. After 30 years of living under the corrupt regime that starved the majority of the Egyptians while fattening a group of businessmen and officials, the Egyptians rose against the rule of Mubarak to replace it with one to put the country on the path to development. President Morsi won the elections with a very low percentage over the contender and minority vote of the electorate. He could have gained the support of the majority of the Egyptians if he had began rule with a coalition government concentrating on developing Egypt to join the ranks of the developed countries in less than two decades. He did not actually need a long time to consider development proposals or even attract foreign investments to revive the economy. It would have been sufficient to announce the start of two giant projects for all Egyptians to gather round it and even create the requested finance without needing to funds of some Arab or other foreign sources. One of the many promising projects that could introduce tremendous change to life of Egypt is that of the Qattara Depression in the Western Desert, south of the Mediterranean North Coast, for which innumerable studies were conducted indicating its eminent feasibility. Additionally, this project also offers solutions to the climatic disaster predicted to hit Egypt after some decades with the expected rise of the Mediterranean Sea level. It aims to turn the Qattara Depression into a spillway allowing drainage of the excess seawater via a 55km canal connecting the depression with the sea. This project would entail turning the depression into one of the largest artificial lake in the world, with a total area of 40,000 square km. This great lake would change the image of life in Egypt not only because of the related investment and urban projects but also in enhancing Egypt's production of electricity to be generated via waterfalls as well as the fish wealth created and increased cultivation enabled. So could one imagine the great benefit Egypt would receive from this project if the rulers considered starting it today? Its most important fruit would be the revival of the Egyptians' dream of living in a developed prosperous country. Surely, any rulers, regardless of their political background, would gain public support if they helped to achieve this national dream for which the Egyptians began their revolution two years ago.
