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Saudi King Voices Supports For Egyptian Coup
Somehow it is not very surprising that the person who should be most concerned should the Egyptian (non) coup spread, namely the head of the House of Saud, is the one to condemn the previous US-supported regime, and to voice his praises for the current US-supported regime.
From Reuters:
Saudi King Abdullah called on Arabs to stand together against “attempts to destabilise” Egypt, in a strong message of support for the country’s military leadership read out on Saudi television on Friday.
“The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, its people and government stood and stands by today with its brothers in Egypt against terrorism,” he said.
“I call on the honest men of Egypt and the Arab and Muslim nations … to stand as one man and with one heart in the face of attempts to destabilise a country that is at the forefront of Arab and Muslim history,” he added.
Saudi Arabia was a close ally of former president Hosni Mubarak and has historically had a difficult relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood. It pledged $5 billion in aid to Egypt after Mohammed Mursi of the Brotherhood was ousted from the presidency last month.
Wait, did Abdullah call on the honest men of the Arab and Muslim nations to stand as one two years ago when Egypt was swept with a US-supported revolution in an idential attempt to “destabilize a country?”
Or perhaps if he didn’t then, and he does not… maybe he has some ulterior motives even though, as Reuters, notes, he did pledge $5 billion in aid to the man whom the US forcibly removed.
Could it be that there is a natgas pipeline in it for the Saudis who were recently humiliated by Putin and are desperate to save some international face?
10 Comments on "Saudi King Voices Supports For Egyptian Coup"
Arthur on Fri, 16th Aug 2013 7:44 pm
“Could it be that there is a natgas pipeline in it for the Saudis who were recently humiliated by Putin and are desperate to save some international face?”
Hmm, the situation has more similarities with 1968 and the uprising in Czechoslovakia… at the time ironically dubbed as:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring
Now where did we hear that ‘Spring’ idea gain?
Mapping:
1968 2013
————-
USSR USA
DDR KSA
CZ Egypt
Dubček Morsi
Honecker King Abdullah
The essence of the 1968 uprising was the wish of the people of CZ to free themselves of the yoke of the USSR and install democracy. Regimes of neighbouring countries were all too keen to support the military intervention because they knew all too wel that a domino effect would cost them their own neck.
The essence of the first uprising in Egypt was also regime change, not so much to install European democracy, but the foundations of an Islamic society. But the very moment that Morsi was in power he tried to expand his Egyptian revolution to Syria. KSA would have been next. That’s why Washington gave the nod to the Egyptian military and KSA applauds, because the rulers of KSA know very well that without the US, their sorry necks will be on the chopping block.
Gonna happen anyway. And we won’t have to wait 1989-1968=21 years for that to happen. How about 21 months?
Norm on Fri, 16th Aug 2013 8:30 pm
I can never figure out who are the good guys and who are the bad guys. It needs to be more like a John Wayne movie. Good guys on tan horses and tan hats. Bad guys on brown horses with black hats. Somebody plz explain this Egypt thing, I am listening.
Arthur on Fri, 16th Aug 2013 9:17 pm
“I can never figure out who are the good guys and who are the bad guys.”
There are no good guys or bad guys.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Good_and_Evil
Just rising and declining powers.
dissident on Fri, 16th Aug 2013 9:33 pm
The Saudi Royal family needs to be exterminated for the good of mankind.
Dave Thompson on Fri, 16th Aug 2013 11:48 pm
As long as the oil trades in U.S. “reserve” dollars, and it will, Saudi interests are inconsequential.
BillT on Sat, 17th Aug 2013 1:31 am
Soon Saudi Arabia will go back to just Arabia. The Saud family is getting old and the 7,000 princes will fight over the leadership when the old guys die off.
As for oil always trading in petro dollars, that too is coming to a close. China and Russia are getting ready to change it. Wait and see.
DC on Sat, 17th Aug 2013 2:06 am
Saudi Arabia=US puppet state.
Egyptian Military=US puppet Army.
Therefore-Saudi Arabia supports the Egyptian Armies brutal crackdown.
Not that hard to figure out…
Norm on Sat, 17th Aug 2013 5:46 am
Ah thanks Arthur, I am glad to know there isn’t any good guys or bad guys after all.
Now I have a green light to be a bad guy, and we know they live much better. Excellent news all around.
Arthur on Sat, 17th Aug 2013 9:38 am
“Now I have a green light to be a bad guy, and we know they live much better. ”
Yeayh, yeah, so far you were the good guys of history (according to yourself) and merily provoked Pearl Harbor, allied yourself to the largest mass murderers in history against your mother civilization, bombed and killed hundreds of thousands of German civilians, nuking Hiroshima and Nagasika, bombing Vietnam and Cambodia, setting up 9/11, invading Afghanistan and Iraq on a set of lies based on 9/11, instigating a war in Syria and lusting for war against Iran ever since 1996.
Do not worry, I am not claiming the moral high ground here, the Dutch invaded quit a few countries themselves in their history and the only reason they were not tempted to nuke anyone was because they had no nukes.
History is not guided by moral principles, although there are armies of politicians who claim the contrary, before they engage in their own private little ‘good war’ against ‘barbarians’, ‘huns’, ‘islamo-fascists’, child-beaters and what have you.
http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/guerre/photos/2800/19720121-086.jpg
The more important factor than (non-existing) ‘morals’ that constrains too much cruelty is that events are recorded and that in some future revenge might occur. But for the rest history is little else than growing and declining powers, their alliances and their victories and defeats. Won’t be different in the future.
Keith_McClary on Sun, 18th Aug 2013 3:48 am
Norm:
It’s like Syria, only the other way around.
Wait a bit and note how the presstitutes use rebels/militants and regime/authorities, etc.