By Ivan Rioufol
A finding Barack H. Obama, who is ready to drop the autocrat Hosni Mubarak, legitimately rejected by his people, has not shown such boldness before the tyrant Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian street when she also claimed, in spring 2009, democracy and freedom. The long silence of the President U.S. face challenge to the dictatorship of the mullahs has even been desperate for opponents of the theocratic and totalitarian regime, so little supported by the West and now silenced after a ruthless crackdown. Therefore the memory of this inglorious episode makes me doubt the sincerity and courage of Obama, who called last night for change "now" to Egypt. Is this really the democracy that he is finally ready to back there, or is it rather the appeasement of Islamism and its very specific ideas of human rights? I hope I am wrong, but his attitude makes me think to that of Jimmy Carter in 1979, would drop his ally the Shah of Iran with consequences that are known to the people.
The possible recovery by Islamism from a copy of the disobedience of some Arab-Muslim world is a risk that will remain in the immediate future. So this perspective has she not need to take, in addition, the bond flattering of the president of the United States, recalling happy that his middle name, Hussein, is to understand and accept the claims of identity Islam. The role of the Democrats is to support unequivocally the Tunisians and Egyptians when they demand freedom and democracy. It is also to warn against the assumption of a regression theocratic benefit of local dissensions inevitable, even with a sympathetic U.S. a "moderate Islam" which "experts" are already telling us that Turkey would be the model. better if Islam achieves modernization. However, it seems that the West should, by an elementary subject, stay away from this process is to drive. It is the only Muslim world.
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