The American foreign policy promotes the establishment of client regimes that serve US interests regardless whether they were seculars or religious fundamentalists. No-need to cite here the hundreds of examples known to most readers. But Arab and Muslim intellectuals are generally nationalists and patriots who defend the interests of their own people and refuse to be agents of foreign powers under any pretext.
For this reason the Americans concentrated their efforts on recruiting Arab military idiots, political prostitutes or backward Muslim fundamentalists. Following their successful experiment in Latin America with military dictators, the Americans started to introduce the model to topple ‘elected’ governments starting in Syria, Egypt, Sudan and Iraq and replacing them with secular, anti-communist military dictators. In other areas, the Americans used religion to fight non-believing ‘leftists and communists’ by recruiting thousands of Muslim fundamentalists to fight their wars and to install client regimes (e.g. Mullah Omar). Until today, the Americans have no trouble with their client regime of Saudi Arabia despite the absence of democracy or freedom. Furthermore, the Americans didn’t have trouble with the Taliban rule until September 2001. What complicates the matter further is the fact that the Americans have added another dimension to their doctrine by including the need to serve Israeli interests to become serving USraeli strategic interests.
As a result, the Americans are in direct conflict with Iran, Syria and Sudan and with all Arab and Muslim patriots. It is not democracy that America is promoting. Ahmedinejad and Hania won the respective elections in Iran and Palestine but the Americans still believe that their rules are illegitimate. Obama went to bow his head to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia who has never won an election. Why no American questions Israeli democracy when the 30% Arab minority doesn’t get proper representation?
Adnan Darwash, Iraq Occupation Times
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