26-year-old Mohammed Bouzaazi did not fulfill his planned four year degree in psychology. at the University of Tunisia. But at least he managed to secure a junior degree in bacallauearete level.. He did not have a job in the normal establishment due to high unemployment rate and tough economic circumstances in his native Tunis, the capital of the north African nation of Tunisia. He was continually harassed as a vegetable vendor where he etched out a living as a seller at the nation’s capital.
At the last count, what has now been generally characterized as the Arab spring was created, elevated, impacted and in a general sense enamored by a whirlwind of societal discontent, led by this gentleman of modest beginnings.
He set himself ablaze, setting the stage for combustions, retributions and polytypical convulsions all over the Arab world. After Tunisia was Yemen, Libya fell, Egypt is yet in turmoil, Syria is still boiling while Iran is eye boiling Israel.
Our concern today undoubtedly is about the Mediterranean state of Egypt.. This is a nation that made peace with the state of Israel. This is a country that prides itself with so much political liberalism even as a virile military establishment is always on the standby.
In come President Mohammed Morsi in to this volatile mix. He introduced high handed Islamic constitutional changes into a very much liberal enclave. The outcome was discomfiting to the large extent of provoking reactionary elements to frongtail into the now popular descent of their discontent aka the Arab Spring. Could it have have happened earlier than now only providence knows. In any event, deposed President Morsi’s tenure met its cherished abrupt termination with a transitional arrangement backed fully with the mighty and fury of the military establishment.
Now the transitional government has promoted the man in the saddle, General el-Sisi to the position of Field Marshal preparatory to being a front rurner and chief content ender to the June slates presidential election between which he is conjured to unshed his military toga for a civilian toga as0 civilian president.
The question on our front burner is this. Was the deposition of Mohammed Morsi borne out of any altruistic ideological, religious or personal egoistic concerns or otherwise?
Is Field Marshal el- Sisi so altruistically gifted to lead the Egyptians out of their tumltutuous enclave or pecunious chicanery?
Morsi is now being tried on the fourth criminal count charge and no end in sight this time it is specifically for a jail brake offense in 2011. He remains defiant and still insists to be the president of Egypt.
As noted earlier, he remained incalcitrant, even in incarceration insisting that he remains the president of the nation.
The interim government in Cairo has promoted General el-Sisi, the man who deposed Morsi to the post of Field Marshall positing him to contest the presidency in April having proscribed the Muslim Brotherhood as a political tour de force, meaning that in any election a Sisi candidacy is a shoe-in to the Cairo palacy.
Question is what beholds of the quest for democracy in a so much celebrated liberal and democratic Egypt? Where do we go from here?
The Arab Spring revolution was a call to order in a politically dysfunctional and unjust society no doubt. Dictators and sit tight leaders were upturned, uprooted and sent packing from there comfort zones. Libya’s Colonel Ghadafi lost out, Yemeni’s president had a run for the border, Syria’s Assad is still on oxygen octave battling for the soul of his life, even the eastern bloc from Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine and Bangladesh are not spared of political restlessness.
In the middle of all these, our man in the saddle in Egypt, now Field MarshallSisi says his military establishment, he is not contesting for the presidency. He is so busy putting Morsi and all that he stands for as in the Muslim Brotherhood into uter mud just as we say call a dog a bad name as to hang it.
He already has arranged a constitutional referendum with an approval rating of 98
.1 per cent which guarantees full grip on power till thy kingdom come in good old Cairo.
Does it really matter if Field Marshall el-Sisi now becomes President el-Sisi? Does the average Egyptian benefit more or less from this transformation agenda?
These are the salient and pertinent issues that appertain to the tumult in the land of the living as regards to Cairo. Wait a minute. May be Morssi made some miscalculations in terms of constitutional realignments. May be he was a little tilted to Islamic fundamentalism as in strict enforcement of Sharia and all that but with a military guy trying to shed the toga of militarism for anewed democracy is not conducive to an established civil society as in Egypt.
This is a nation that has established peace pact with Israel, that has strong military and economic relationship with America and continues to establish itself as a strong regional power in the Mediterranean.
There should be an Egypt solution to the Egyptian problem. The military should not come in as an army of occupation just because of his monopoly of power of militarism.
If the people upstaged Mubarak, that decision should hold. If Morssi became upper ended, he should be checked. The military belongs in the barracks, so shall it ber.
