Краутхаммер про Египет

[otkaznik1]

...ElBaradei would be a disaster. As head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, he did more than anyone to make an Iranian nuclear bomb possible, covering for the mullahs for years. (As soon as he left, the IAEA issued a strikingly tough, unvarnished report about the program.) Worse, ElBaradei has allied himself with the Muslim Brotherhood. Such an alliance is grossly unequal. The Brotherhood has organization, discipline and widespread support. In 2005, it won approximately 20% of parliamentary seats.

ElBaradei has no constituency of his own, no political base, no political history in Egypt at all. He has lived abroad for decades. He has less of a residency claim to Egypt than Rahm Emanuel has to Chicago. A man with no constituency allied with a highly organized and powerful political party is nothing but a figurehead, a useful idiot that the Brotherhood will dispense with when it ceases to need a cosmopolitan front man.

The Egyptian military, on the other hand, is the most stable and important institution in the country. It is Western-oriented, and rightly suspicious of the Brotherhood. And it is widely respected, carrying the prestige of the 1952 “Free Officers Movement” that overthrew the monarchy, and the 1973 October War that restored Egyptian pride along with the Sinai.

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=207094

Comments

[griseopallidus.livejournal.com]

Да с Барадеи все ясно - он либо дурак, либо на Иранском жаловании (что в международной бюрократии совсем не редкость, вспомним хотя бы прикормленных Саддамом чиновников).

[otkaznik.livejournal.com]

Хорошо, если бы дурак.

[griseopallidus.livejournal.com]

Это не принципиально.
Если к нему попадет власть, его в любом случае через год выставят за дверь.

[otkaznik.livejournal.com]

Об этом и говорит Краутхаммер. Я же надеюсь, что глупость способна воспрепятствовать его попадению во власть.

[ivan-gandhi.livejournal.com]

Устав для этой прозападной армии писал полковник с нашей военной кафедры.

[otkaznik.livejournal.com]

Значит армия организована по прусскому образцу. Не худший вариант.