Egypt's Revolution: Creative Destruction for a 'Greater Middle East'?

[jakeXT]

F. William Engdahl, February 5, 2011

Fast on the heels of the regime change in Tunisia came a popular-based protest movement
launched on January 25 against the entrenched order of Egypt's Hosni Mubarak. Contrary to the
carefully-cultivated impression that the Obama Administration is trying to retain the present
regime of Mubarak, Washington in fact is orchestrating the Egyptian as well as other regional
regime changes from Syria to Yemen to Jordan and well beyond in a process some refer to as
"creative destruction."

The template for such covert regime change has been developed by the Pentagon, US intelligence
agencies and various think-tanks such as RAND Corporation over decades, beginning with the May
1968 destabilization of the de Gaulle presidency in France. This is the first time since the USbacked
regime changes in Eastern Europe some two decades back that Washington has initiated
simultaneous operations in many countries in a region. It is a strategy born of a certain
desperation and one not without significant risk for the Pentagon and for the long-term Wall Street
agenda. What the outcome will be for the peoples of the region and for the world is as yet unclear.

Yet while the ultimate outcome of defiant street protests in Cairo and across Egypt and the Islamic
world remains unclear, the broad outlines of a US covert strategy are already clear.

No one can dispute the genuine grievances motivating millions to take to the streets at risk of life.
No one can defend atrocities of the Mubarak regime and its torture and repression of dissent. No
one can dispute the explosive rise in food prices as Chicago and Wall Street commodity
speculators, and the conversion of American farmland to the insane cultivation of corn for ethanol
fuel drive grain prices through the roof. Egypt is the world's largest wheat importer, much of it
from the USA. Chicago wheat futures rose by a staggering 74% between June and November 2010
leading to an Egyptian food price inflation of some 30% despite government subsidies.

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http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/print/Creative%20Destruction%20Washington%20Style.pdf

[bemildred]

1. Interesting. nt

[stockholmer]

2. spot on, Engdahl is a great source for geo-political insight