What follows is a notable dressing down of Washington from Kuwait, a nation America saved from Saddam in the First Gulf War. And it starkly shows how frightened Gulf Arab leaders are about events in Egypt. In all the years we’ve been translating articles from Kuwait, in particular by Al-Seyassah editor-in-chief Ahmad Al-Jarallah, I recall nothing so strongly critical of American policy. It is a staunch defense of Egypt President Hosni Mubarak – a truly rare media commodity.
In this op-ed by Al-Jarallah, he criticizes the United States for making it impossible for its allies to impose ‘public order’ by using human rights and democracy as a stick to pressure its friends.
Al-Seyassah editor-in-chief Ahmad Al-Jarallah writes in part:
The old proverb,”the eye is blinded by what its seeks to beautify,” best describes U.S. policy in the region. Since the last century, in the early 1950s, Washington has rarely resolved a crisis that didn’t end in making things even more complicated, unknowingly jeopardizing its own interests in the Middle East and Africa and continuing to lose allies and attract enemies. Can it remain leader of the free world – which is how it refers to itself – with such expertise at attracting disasters that undermine its own interests?
The U.S. administration has learned nothing from the past five decades, particularly about how it has helped undermine global security and stability. It has aided the spread of extremism and created incubators of terrorism. The result was September 11, 2001, the effects of which we continue to confront to the present day.
Washington uses the slogan of defending human rights, protecting freedom and democracy, and supporting citizens of other countries to apply pressure to other governments and get them to make greater policy concessions. The U.S. seems oblivious to the dangerous repercussions of using this double-edged sword. This simply attracts crisis and undermines international confidence in the self-proclaimed leader of democratic states.
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