Hassan Tahsin I only recently discovered that there is a special division in the US Defense Department, with a parallel group in the CIA, with the sole function of giving names to special undercover operations or military invasions, such as Desert Storm and others. The last of these names which is US-made is the “Arab Spring”. The weakening of the Arab nation, its disintegration and its destruction economically, militarily and socially both internally and externally, was an American strategy for which an attractive name indicating optimism and democratic future aspirations was chosen. The name existed in the media, but had no existence on the ground. It is the Arab Spring, which was the American gift to its Arab friends! A number of American writers and political analysts agree on one thing which is that what happened in the Arab region was American made. At the beginning, things seemed to be getting out of hand but America soon took control to increase unrest and sedition among Arab countries using a US road map which included a number of these countries. Now Syria and Egypt remain volatile and appear to be on their way to armed confrontation. In Syria the picture has become clear. A ruler is intent on killing his people using the armed forces which are themselves divided. The show will come to an end when what is left of Syria is wiped out and when Syrian citizens are destroyed psychologically, economically and socially. In its present situation, Syria needs what former Egyptian President Anwar Al-Sadat called for during the civil war in Lebanon when he said: “Take your hands off Lebanon” meaning to stop foreign intervention. Saudi Arabia brought all the conflicting Lebanese parties to a roundtable dialogue in Taif and left them alone to discuss their issues. The experiment succeeded and the civil war came to an end. Today, with the situation little different can political conditions in Egypt stabilize without the army firing a single bullet? This is a question which preoccupies the Egyptian masses regardless of their political colors, inclinations and wishes. An American political expert in an article on the 25th January Revolution wrote: “The Arab Spring started from Wikileaks which was a project that originated in the White House with the participation of a number of organizations. The US found itself falling into a trap. Every country in the Middle East wanted to liberate itself from American imperialist hegemony. Some countries, like Mubarak's Egypt, headed toward Iran while others, like Algeria, opted to head toward China. There are a number of examples. All countries aspired to liberate themselves from the American grip. The US State Department and the CIA both said that if Middle Eastern countries did not obey them, they would destroy them all. Therefore, whatever happened in the Arab countries recently was part of US plans to shake up their stability. They are not, therefore, revolutions but mutinies ignited by the CIA, the French and other organizations. “The United States is now sending arms to Libya with the help of the new military ruler in Egypt. There are special American, British and French forces in Libya which were sent there about a month ago. Therefore, I do not think that what has taken place in the Arab countries are revolutions. We should be very clear. The US and the Muslim Brotherhood are in alliance with each other in the whole world against the Arab and Islamic countries.” Similarly, the German journalist F. William Engdahl wrote: “Tunisia was chosen to be the first station to launch the Arab Spring in a plan prepared by the Pentagon about 10 years ago. The objective was not to establish democracy in the region but to redraft the map of the Middle East. The plan was aimed to create chaos in the region that would provide the justification for NATO to intervene as in the case of Libya. We (meaning the US) will never allow real democracy, like that in the West, to exist in the Middle East. If the Arab countries have real democracies, the US will lose its control of the oil wealth and the strategic location of the Arab region.” To the question: “Why would Washington want to destabilize these countries? Are not Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan and some other Arab countries loyal to the US?” He answered: “Not loyal enough. Gaddafi replaced the American oil companies in Libya with Russian, Chinese and Italian companies. Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was requested in 2009 to create a “Sunni” front with Israel including Egypt and other countries in the region. These countries would be under America's nuclear cover against Iran, Syria and Hezbollah. Mubarak refused. He also did not agree to the establishment of an American base in Egypt. The US asked him to send forces to Afghanistan and Iraq but he also refused. The Americans believed that Mubarak was too independent and had to go. People should ask America what it is doing in the Arab Spring countries. Hasn't America learned its lesson in Afghanistan where it armed Al-Qaeda only to breed terrorists around the world.
