Walk like an Egyptian
A little background on Hosni Mubarak’s presidency of Egypt. He succeeded Anwar El-Sadat in 1981 after Sadat was murdered by the very military he built in order to fight Israeli troops who invaded the Sinai in the early 1970s. That military later took the Sinai back. Sadat was killed because he committed an apparently unforgivable crime later: Making peace with Israel.
Mubarak has since ran Egypt under something called Emergency Law for three decades (because angry citizens have wanted to kill him), essentially suppressing perhaps the best-educated populace in the Muslim world. And U.S. foreign policy has encouraged this, quite frankly because Uncle Sam needed friends in said Muslim world.
So for those of you who didn’t know, and always wondered where hostility towards the west came from, pay attention now. We’re living it. This isn’t an anti-American argument. It’s the latest history lesson from the Middle East.
