CAIRO - Now that the Temple of Islamists on the Mokkatam Hill in Cairo has been torched, the US ambassador to Egypt Anne W. Patterson has undoubtedly launched a last-ditch effort to save her career and the two presidents (Obama and Morsi), who were the victims of her incorrect and inaccurate reports and analysis. Patterson will not give in so easily. Refusing to confess to her scandalous defeat in Cairo and deeply concerned with the embarrassment she caused to her president, Patterson appeared to have planned with the Muslim Brotherhood to shift their battle from Rabaa Al-Adawiya to untraditional battlefronts overseas. Her strong relationship with the bearded men and militants in Islamabad and Afghanistan will spur them to help their frustrated colleagues in Egypt. Patterson's appeal for help overseas began to reap fruits: the Islamic Solidarity Council in Pakistan last week organised mass protests to denounce the removal of the MB's President from power in Egypt. Turkey has outrageously urged the UN Security Council to intervene in resolving Morsi's dilemma and humiliation in Egypt. Tunisia entered the fray by criticizing the alleged military coup in Cairo to overthrow Islamists. In the meantime, the US and Germany has mounted pressure on the Egyptian authorities to release Morsi. If Morsi was released, the Egyptian authorities would come under bigger pressure to allow the overthrown president to fly to any foreign country��"where will fight for the restoration of his throne, thus increasing possibilities of igniting a civil war in Egypt. Syrian opposition leaders, who are waging a brutal war against President Bashar Assad, are living comfortably and snugly in five-star hotels. We were the first to suggest in this corner that the arrival of the US Ambassador Anne W. Patterson in Cairo from Pakistan did not augur well. Patterson was nominated in May 2011, four months after the January uprising, by President Obama to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to Egypt. She was the US Ambassador to Pakistan from July 2007 to October 2010. In a series of articles, we warned that Anne Patterson was entrusted with a task of grooming militants and Islamists for assuming power in the Arab world. A special liking she developed to bearded people in Islamabad was the best part in Patterson's qualifications for assuming her role in this new strategy. She became one of Obama's strategists, who suggested strongly that Islamists and their militant cohorts would stop their anti-US ominous groans if Washington helped them seize power from its long-standing allies. Still staggering under the psychological aftermath of the 9/11 attack, Obama's administr ation planned to open a built-in cage for Islamists and militants in the entire Middle East. Obama and his team expected that Islamists and militants would reciprocate by limiting their violence to their own Muslim people and in the meantime stop their threats to the Western countries. The rise of Islamists to power in the region was also part of a US-planned establishment of small religious states in the ME, which could give international and regional credit for the birth of the Jewish State in Israel. Obama an d his strategists lent support to this new plan in the Middle East to overcome disgrace the US was caused globally over its failure to clench concert and decisive victory in Iraq or in Afghanistan. Many of this newspaper's readers, including foreign diplomats, used to accuse us of provocatively debating Patterson's role and ambitions in Egypt. Nonetheless, we have to acknowledge the US Ambassador for giving credit to our��"admittedly tough but elaborate��"criticism to her mission and her qualifications: the US ambassador did exactly what we had warned of before. There is hardly any doubt that Patterson has disgraced the US President Barack Obama and his administration. Obama was perplexed and uncertain about what had taken place in Egypt on June 30. He was told by Patterson that the milkman was at the door only to discover that it was the ironsmith, who was standing at the door. The US Secretary of State John Kerry, who is more a retired heavyweight wrestler than a diplomat, was also at a loss. Kerry did not know what to say or how to explain the dramatic fall of Washington's new pets in the Middle East to the American people. Three days after the June 30 Revolutoin, Tahrir Square thunderously echoed with chants denouncing Obama and Patterson. Posters featuring a bearded Obama, who wears Osama Bin Laden's turban were unfolded across the square. An anti-US sentiment overwhelmed the square and beyond; the angry protesters called for severing relationship with the US. The Egyptian military is also urged by the nation to answer impatient knocks at the door by Moscow to come in and resume its relationship, which witnessed its peak throughout the 1950s and the 1960s. For understandable reasons in the 1970s, which have changed remarkably, late President Anwar Sadat cut relationship with Moscow.
