One of the great stories of failure on the part of the West in general, and the U.S in particular has been the failure of the clandestine efforts and covert conspiracies to dislodge Erdogan’s government in Turkey. The sensational turnaround achieved by Erdogan and his party in the fortunes of Turkey since their triumph at the start of this century was on the one hand welcomed by Turkey’s Western allies and on the other hand viewed with unconcealed suspicion, mistrust and disdain because of Erdogan’s sustained ‘drift’ towards re-Islamization of Turkey. The probability of the West’s ‘ secret hands’ being behind the recent ‘upheavals’ in Istanbol and Izmir against Erdogan’s regime cannot be ruled out. But Erdogan has established strong roots in his country over the years, and has been able to overcome the recent West-backed ‘secular’ challenge to his power with great determination.
Morsi of Egypt may not be so lucky .Firstly he has been in power for only a year. Secondly he inherited a system and administrative structure that has been stinking with corruption and misrule of decades. Thirdly he didn’t arrive with a compact economic programme to address the grievances of the deprived masses. And fourthly the secular opposition to Marsi’s Islam in Egypt has proved to be far more potent and fortified than had initially been considered.
The West is fully behind the anti-Morsi forces in Egypt. The thought of Islam rising and succeeding as a strong political alternative to the liberal pluralism of the West, in any Muslim country from Turkey to Iran to Egypt to Pakistan is a nightmare to the Western mind.
The West’s strategists have a separate formula for each Muslim country to block the ascendance of Islam. But one common, instrument is to promote economic unrest and dependence .The World Bank and the IMF play a pivotal role in this respect.
The countries where the fate of the people is in the hands of corrupt rulers, the West has no problems in manipulating the policies of the governments.
Naom Chomasky once wrote: “If I borrow money and send it to a Swiss bank and then can’t pay my creditors, it is whose problem? The people in the slums don’t borrow the money. Why should they be made to pay back? Why shouldn’t those be made to pay back who borrowed, and then sent it all to the Swiss banks?”
Countries like Egypt and Pakistan can’t bring about a turnaround without having access to their billions lying in the Swiss banks.
From Egypt to Pakistan everywhere it is a tale of stolen billions.
02-07-2013
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