chomsky on egypt revolution MOST REMARKABLE

Noam Chomsky: "This is the Most Remarkable Regional Uprising that I Can Remember"

Democracy Now

We speak to MIT Professor Noam Chomsky about what this means for the future
of the Middle East and US foreign policy in the region.

http://www.democracynow.org/seo/2011/2/2/noam_chomsky_this_is_the_most

Obama says at 3:50

"Now ... it is not the role of any other country to determine egypt's leaders,
only the egyptian people can do that."

HAH!  What a hypocrit, a liar and a double-faced illusionist!

The USA elites have changed the leaders of so many countries.
The USA elites DO see it as their role. Just google

Mohhamed Moussadeq Kermit

In recent weeks, popular uprisings in the Arab world have led to the ouster of Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the imminent end of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's regime, a new Jordanian government, and a pledge by Yemen's longtime dictator to leave office at the end of his term. We speak to MIT Professor Noam Chomsky about what this means for the future of the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy in the region. When asked about President Obama's remarks last night on Mubarak, Chomsky said: "Obama very carefully didn't say anything... He's doing what U.S. leaders regularly do. As I said, there is a playbook: whenever a favored dictator is in trouble, try to sustain him, hold on; if at some point it becomes impossible, switch sides."

AMY GOODMAN: For analysis of the Egyptian uprising and its implications for the Middle East and beyond, we're joined now by the world-renowned political dissident and linguist Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, author of over a hundred books, including his latest, Hopes and Prospects.

Noam, welcome to Democracy Now! Your analysis of what's happening now in Egypt and what it means for the Middle East?

NOAM CHOMSKY: Well, first of all, what's happening is absolutely spectacular. The courage and determination and commitment of the demonstrators is remarkable. And whatever happens, these are moments that won't be forgotten and are sure to have long-term consequences, as the fact that they overwhelmed the police, took Tahrir Square, are staying there in the face of organized pro-Mubarak mobs, organized by the government to try to either drive them out or to set up a situation in which the army will claim to have to move in to restore order and then to maybe install some kind of military rule, whatever. It's very hard to predict what's going to happen. But the events have been truly spectacular. And, of course, it's all over the Middle East. In Yemen, in Jordan, just about everywhere, there are the major consequences.

The United States, so far, is essentially following the usual playbook. I mean, there have been many times when some favored dictator has lost control or is in danger of losing control. There's a kind of a standard routine—Marcos, Duvalier

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