The Egyptian Press

I have often testified that on most matters, in the relevant context, I agree with
Dr. Al Zawahiri, except on the use of violence to overthrow the unjust. Concomitantly, I disagree with Osama on most matters, in the relevant context, except on the need for the freedom to express one's outrage at the undemocratic practices of democracies. I should have you know that I am bound by my public utterances as they are based upon principles, and what are principles if they are not consistent?

On account of Israel, the United States supports, the charge goes, autocratic governments "in the middle east"--the largest impediment to peace. It is true, Egypt receives a lot of aid from the US, but diplomatically speaking these are Egyptian issues. The US cannot police the world, and that she guzzles Arab oil is not to be seen as a conspiracy to defraud the human rights of any single Arab. And yet, I have little sympathy for Mubarak, even less for the idiots in Algeria whose necks are going to be slashed, we hear, for next Ramadan. So, Dr. Al Zawahiri asked me, what would I do if I was president? Well... I'd tie Egyptian aid to benchmark reforms... and hold them to it. No be di wan wey Sista Condi travel to the Hilton in Cairo, then suggest that Egypt has made "significant progress" because there was a bathroom in her suite. They are modern too, ma. The US, then, is toying with the fire of her founding fathers, if not their ire. We do not pay lip service to freedom. So I strongly suggest that Mubarak Jnr begin the process of dialog with Kadafi Jnr so that the West and all those under the "oppressive boot" of the unjust, as Brother Wole would have said, have, if nothing else, hope. If this occurs, then I can guarantee peace. Until then, I protest the Egyptian government in the strongest terms possible, meaning that I will not protest any acts of violence by those seeking to overthrow the unujst--however unjust they, themselves, may be. It is the democracy that democracy produced. As for Israel... she hath no king.. abi?
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