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Originally Posted by Dcat
The CIA doesn't overthrow a previously installed dictator unless they have another one ready to go.
Egypt was planned that way (to be ruled over by an authoritarian military government subservient to Washington), it's just now the people have fully awoken to what has happened, and they are not having it.  |
You do understand the reason the current uprisings took place was because of wiki leaks don't you? If you want to blame someone, blame them because it was the good old freedom of information that allowed the people of these countries to see how corrupt their govts were.
The US certainly had no reason to cause an uprising with-in Egypt to change leadership. Their govt was already in our pocket so to speak and we had lots of arms sales deals with Egypt.
You don't fuck that up just to change dictators, when you already have a stable country and a solid customer. Once things went down there the US had no option but to side with the uprising, because it's obvious they were gonna overthrow the govt by that time and business is business so they wanted to keep the arms sales.