Really, Donald?! In October alone, you lied eleven-hundred times. By calling El-Sisi a killer, you deserve a membership card in the Muslim Brotherhood!! Congratulations!! You and Mohamed Morsi are soul mates -habitual liars. Both of you hold no belief in the values of your respective countries: America and Egypt.
Trump's falsehood calling El-Sisi a killer is now placed in two contexts: The "truth" context; and the "leadership comparison" context.
I am not a spokesman for the president of Egypt; have never met him; not paid by him; but voted for him. Trump has a megaphone -the bully pulpit of the White House. El-Sisi has no lobby in the U.S. Has no public relations firm in America. So let my voice, my blog, voice what I know to be the bare facts.
In the "truth" context, Donald Trump has lied to America at the rate of 30 to 40 lies daily. That is a world record. Surpassing even that of Hitler's propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels. But with a difference: Goebbels used the big lies technique. His American clone, Trump, trades in "retail." Saturating the market. And that is the president of the U.S. who came to power, not through popular majority. But through an anachronism in the U.S. Constitution -the Electoral College.
By comparison, El-Sisi, to the best of my knowledge, has never lied to the 103 million Arabs who call themselves "Egyptians." A full one-third of the Arab nation. Does not make things up. Does neither exaggerate, nor conflate.
The Islamic adage bequeathed to 1.7 billion Muslims by Abu-Bakr, the First successor of the Prophet Muhammad says: "Truth is a sacred trust. Lying is an abominable betrayal."
El-Sisi was selected by Mohamed Morsi to the post of Defense Minister for his abiding by Islamic rules of conduct. There is no greater distance morally or ethically between Trump and El-Sisi!! The former is a congenital liar; the latter is a habitual truth expounder.
Now to the "leadership comparison" context. Trump rules by fear. In an interview as a presidential candidate, he said: "Real power is -I don't even want to use the word -fear." On the opposite side, stands El-Sisi as he assures Egypt to fear neither the terrorist attacks in Sinai, nor the slow progress from a weak economy to an emerging economy, now fuelled by the discovery of vast fields of natural gas.
On freedom of trade, stupid Trump claims without evidence, that the outside world is ripping America off; that the World Trade Organization is the "worst" ever international organization; that Canada, Mexico, and China should be punished by high tariffs on steel and aluminum.
Then look at El-Sisi: delivered a Second Suez Canal; bolstered trade with Africa, the Arab homeland, the European Union (including Greece and Cyprus). Stationed an aircraft carrier at the southern end of the Red Sea to ensure freedom of navigation.
On the use of the military, Trump presides over a country which is uncertain about the use of its armed forces. To stay in nearly 120 countries, or to retrench. If staying, the host countries, including South Korea, Japan, and Germany should, as Trump demands, pay up the defense cost. If leaving, Trump is shifting the rules of engagement with the Taliban. Namely: abandonment. If Trump believes in what he says, then why does he, on November 10, scold President Macron of France for calling for the protection of Western Europe by building a European army?! Trump who insults daily, ludicrously called Macron's suggestion an insult!!
But El-Sisi, a distinguished general and commander in chief, has no such problems. The only Egyptian forces abroad are those volunteered to the UN Peace-keeping operations.
For Trump, treaties are to be shredded with abandon. He exited the Iran nuclear deal; the Paris Accord on climate change; the Trans Pacific Partnership, and the North American Free Trade Association (NAFTA).
By contrast, Egypt has never abandoned an international agreement. Never!! Even in regard to the Suez Canal treaty. Nasser, in 1956, did not nationalize the Canal (it is sovereign territory not subject to nationalization). He nationalized the Suez Canal Company. All share-holders were fully compensated.
By his utterances and executive orders, Trump is an avowed racist. El-Sisi presides over a country in which the color of skin varies from white to brown, to black. All equal under the law. Dark color is even celebrated in Egyptian songs: "Asmar Ya Samarah!!"
By contrast, Trump's father was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. And he and his Donald, have denied Afro-Americans renting any of their apartments in Queens, New York.
Compare this to Egypt, a country which prides itself for its membership in the African Union (the AU). But Trump has called those countries "shithole countries." In the mold of a confirmed liar, he denied saying it. One of his lap dogs, Senator Lindsey Graham mocked that denial to Trump's face. "You said it, Mr. President."
They say that inside each bully is a coward. Fear is the bully's weapon. Trump, in desperate search for matters to frighten American citizens, has found in his tool kit: immigration. "The caravan from Central America is about to invade our southern borders. Middle Easterners are among them. Tough fearsome men."
Trump has shirked his duty to serve in the military. But suddenly he became America's savior from "the brown people's invasion." That caravan is no more than a bunch of poor refugees fleeing their countries in search for a better life.
Trump's foolish claims were rebutted by his predecessor. Obama, referring to Trump's deploying US military to "confront the caravan," described that deployment as "a political stunt." Trump called on the military to respond to any stone throwing by "rifle fire." A war crime. Again to Obama in the opposition: "Our military deserves better."
As to Egypt, thousands of Syrians and Iraqis have been peacefully integrated within Egyptian society. And the danger to America did not come from "Middle Easterners." But from American white misfits with assault rifles, condoned by mixing fictitious fear with the amity between the Republican party and the National Rifle Association.
On women and youth, the difference between Trump and El-Sisi could not be more stark.
Trump, on video, is recorded gloating over his inclination to grab women by their genitals. "When you are a celebrity, they let you do it." In Moscow, the Russians have videoed him in the company of prostitutes in his hotel room. And youth for Trump, are mere props with Trump's hats in rallies screaming for the blood of his adversary.
El-Sisi, by contrast, is a pious person, a family man, with one-third of his Cabinet made up of able women. And when it comes to youth, just study El-Sisi's regular jamborees with youth. Being inspired by the ethos of public service for country and community. Their motto is "Long Live Egypt" (Tahiya Misr). Not the dark motivator induced by Trump ("America First"). Meaning: America for the whites only. There is no "Egypt First" in the Egyptian public discourse.
When it comes to the judiciary, Trump's goal is to extend his sticky fingers of control to the Supreme Court. Thus translating "a More Perfect Union" into "control of the three branches of government." What a relief that Trump's Republican Party has lost the House of Representatives in the mid-term elections.
The battle for confirming Judge Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court was won for one obvious but faulty reason: "The President cannot be prosecuted." An affront to the Constitution, though now condoned by an Acting Attorney-General. But is expected to be soon overwhelmed by the results of the investigation by the Special Counsel, Robert Mueller, in the Trump campaign's alleged collusion with Russia in its cyber attack on America.
By contrast, the Egyptian Constitution of 2014, is fully observed as it states in Article 184 that "interference in matters of justice is a crime with no statute of limitation (SOL)."
Chief of Staff, General John Kelly, has found that Oval Office business and decision making was haphazard, chaotic. In his book, on Trump in the White House, Woodward quotes Kelly saying: "The President's unhinged." And "The President just really doesn't understand anything."
Does calling El-Sisi an "F... killer" merit devoting this entire blog posting to it as a rebuttal? Yes, if you take the propaganda of the Muslim Brotherhood into account!!
That epithet comes straight from the idiotic propaganda resulting from the failure of the Brotherhood's attempt to convert Egypt from a secular State into an Islamic emirate.
Let us here recall that the Brotherhood responded to the 30 June 2013 Egyptian Revolution by trying to hold the country hostage.
After the dismissal of Morsi as a failing ideological president, the Brotherhood's goons besieged Cairo by occupying two central public squares: Rabaa and El-Nahda. For 6 weeks, that siege went on, challenging the security forces to clear those rebellious enclaves.
More than 800 persons, including police officers, were killed. Since its inception in 1928, the Brotherhood's ideology included self-victimization "in the name of God." Its call for "dying in the name of God is our fervent hope" is a pre-destination intent.
El-Sisi killed nobody. The Islamists died needlessly in that confrontation. In legal practice, we call this "suicide by the police," through the "assumption of risk."
Trump's adoption of the Brotherhood's hopeless call for a fresh rebellion brands that brainless man a Quixotic figure. Trump, though showing outward amity to El-Sisi, is a brainless fool for whom friendship is only a way of self-ingratiation.
The 19th century French philosopher, Ernest Renan provided an apt definition of "a nation." A nation is a soul, a spiritual principle. In the age of Trump, principles are mere soap bubbles floating in the air. An air-filled cavity.
As is well known, Trump is known to be obsequious toward Putin of Russia. In the language of intelligence, Trump's role in this regard is known as that of "the useful idiot."
By contrast, the President of Egypt is nobody's useful idiot.
An American friend of mine has reminded me of something regarding the history of America's presidents of whom Trump is Number 45. He wrote: "We have had a lot of dumb presidents. But I am not sure any of them (prior to Trump) have thought themselves brilliant!!"
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