Essays Reflecting the Art of Political and Social Analysis by Lawrence Davidson

Author:Lawrence Davidson
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9783319980058
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

And who is this man, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi , whom Trump so admires and to whom he feels so close?17

Al-Sisi is a criminal. He is the “Field Marshal” who pulled off a coup in 2013 against his country’s first honestly elected government and followed that up with a rigged election that made him “president” of Egypt .

Al-Sisi is a megalomaniac. He and his subordinates have constructed a cult of personality by instructing the Egyptian media to describe al-Sisi as a heroic figure, a “brave, special, free and patriotic Egyptian.” To criticize him is to “slander this beautiful thing we have found in our lives.”

Al-Sisi is corrupt. He and his subordinates have been funneling both public and foreign aid monies into special accounts controlled by the military.

Al-Sisi is a hooligan. He has been busy destroying any person or group opposing him, including the largely pacifist Muslim Brotherhood, which has been declared “a terrorist organization.” Those who have protested against all this in the streets of Egypt have been beat up, arrested, or simply shot down.

Nonetheless, al-Sisi is President Trump’s kind of guy, and the US president stands wants there to be no doubt, “that we are very much behind President Sisi.” Finally, we take up the appreciative attitude Trump has taken toward Rodrigo Duterte , the President of the Philippines.18 In early May, Trump extended an invitation to Duterte to visit the White House, remarking at the same time that the two presidents had engaged in “a very friendly conversation.” Duterte, like al-Sisi, seems to be just the sort of “get things done” kind of guy Trump is drawn to. And it is equally clear that, in both cases, Trump is sufficiently devoid of ethics so that he doesn’t care how things actually get done.

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