A lesson from Arab Spring
In February, 2011, Arab Spring in Egypt forced its president Hosni Mubarak to step down. A military council led by the defense minister Mohamed Hussein Tantawi took over the power and promised a transition to democracy soon. After that protests in the street of Egypt were never stop, including asking for trialing Mubarak.
On 3, August 2011 Mubarak was wheeled to the court in a hospital bed. He and his two sons were accused of corruption and killing protesters. Mubarak was supported by U.S government for a few decades. He played an important role on creating connections between Arab world and Israel. Under his dictatorship majority of Egyptians were live with poverty meanwhile his family accumulated good fortune. It is obvious that if Mubarak is a bad guy, United States are the bad guys because we support the bad guy not just for three years but for thirty years.
We of course don’t want to admit that we are the bad guys. We just don’t know what our friends are doing. The lesson we should take here is to stay away from those people. Leaders we support are hated by their people. End up is we spent money and get no credit. Conflicts we created or involved wasting taxpayors’ money and benefited the warmongers only. If we have to say something good about Obama we should say Obama switch our priority task from supporting Israel, anti- terrorists to support democracy.
It is obviously that Muslim Brother is approaching to the power in Egypt. However, if we gave up Mubarak we should not spent 300 billion dollars to support the government he left behind. It has no point to waste money there. Let Egyptians in the street choose their governor, either Muslim or Christian. If new leaders doing well we feel happy for them. If those people are being led to the hell they deserve because that is their choice.
Since we so care about democracy we should let they enjoy their democracy all the way to end. We don’t have to worry about dealing with Muslim governments. If they increase the price of the oil we will increase the price of everything, simply trade products with products. As a big country that has resource and all these land we don’t have to worry at all.
At this moment all we should care is reducing our debt and cut the military budget. Military budget is unnecessary comparing with all the other budgets because in this world no country will attack us. Americans’ benefits are not tie up with countries in the Middle East or in Asia. If we spend every penny on our own business our benefit will be protected well enough. If we don’t create debt and keep dollars in a decent rate we will protect the whole world well enough. Mind our own business is a lesson that we should take in Arab Spring.
