A socialist colleague who does not want to be identified sent me this: "As'ad, the Americans and the Saudis overplayed their hand in Egypt and the
result will not be good. The Jordanians who began repressing a few weeks ago
after being told by the Saudis and the Americans that Egypt has been fixed are
trembling over what will happen tomorrow and the next few week in Egypt with
repercussions in Amman.
The Americans are stupid and not as smart as they used to be. They know
they have 20 more years of Empire if they play it right, but they might end up
having 5 more years if they keep this strategy up. Had they been smart they
would have let Sabbahi win and then had him assassinated.
Egypt is in big trouble as far as I can see —Germany will not take this
lying down. The US is making it increasingly difficult for international
capital to have long term investments in the region and world capitalism can no
longer be entrusted to it. Russia, India, China, Brazil and Germany as leader of
a-soon-to-be-subdued Europe, minus the UK servants of the US, will not let this
happen without resisting it.
It seems one could have a number of readings of US strategy, one of which
could be that US strategy at this point would have to be a military strategy in
that it would not mind engulfing the whole region in bloodshed and can takeover
the Gulf militarily fully to have power over China and Europe. As Nuclear power
can no longer be relied on by international capital after the Japanese disaster,
the US will not mind nuking the 350 million Arabs to keep the oil."
