Chapter 668: The Last Chance for Peace

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This is a complex character, a patriot, a tyrant, a dictator, a reformer, a criminal, a embezzler, a murderer, who has been given too many labels in his life.

However, it cannot be denied that this is an unavoidable figure in world history.

Since being elected Egypt's fourth president in 1981, Mubarak has served as president for nearly a decade. However, this is not the end of his political life, and he will remain president of Egypt for the next twenty years, until the color revolution arises in Egypt.

During the 30 years of Egypt's presidency, Egypt's national strength increased significantly during his term of office, which can actually be seen from the occurrence of color revolutions. If it was Egypt before the 80s, there would be no soil for color revolutions, just as Facebook and Twitter were useless in Afghanistan. Without a fairly educated class, Mubarak could have passed on the presidency as an heirloom from generation to generation.

Not to mention the charges against Mubarak who was put on the head of the opposition after his ouster, at least no one can deny that he is an Arab nationalist.

As an Arab nationalist, he always adhered to the principle that the problems of the Arab world should be resolved within the Arab countries.

To put it simply, the affairs of Arab countries should uphold two principles for the United States, that is, the principle of "my" and "your".

But basically, the Arab League is the so-called "young master's body runs away from the life of the hall". Mubarak's insistence on the self-determination of the Arab nation has no chance of succeeding under the premise that US imperialism is bent on intervening.

But even so, Egypt has made great efforts to achieve a peaceful resolution of the Gulf crisis.

At the last moment before the start of the Gulf War, Mubarak and Egypt did not give up, insisting on persuading Iraq to sit down at the negotiating table with Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the United States until the moment the war broke out.

In fact, most of the countries of the Arab League hold this attitude. Support Kuwait's power, but oppose the involvement of US and UN troops.

The reason is simple: the elites of the Arab world in the Middle East today know very well that once the United States finds an opportunity to intervene in the Middle East, the fate of the Arab League cannot be decided by itself.

In the 80s, there were still three in the Arab world that could be considered to be able to "fight". One is Mubarak's Egypt, the other is the dentist's Daddy's Syria, and the other is Saddam's Iraq.

These three countries are ruled by secular political forces, and have eliminated religious interference, vigorously developed industrialization and national defense capabilities, and popularized scientific knowledge and education. The Arab nationals of these countries also have a strong sense of nationality and hope to achieve the revival of the Arab world through industrialization and education.

Obviously, this is the right route.

However, after the Gulf War, this correct course in the Arab world was strangled to death.

The reason is that the Arab world cannot guarantee its own security, Iraq has been abolished as an important force, and the remaining Arab world is even less capable of confronting Israel. In order to ensure its own security, it can only compromise with the United States on OPEC's oil pricing power.

Without the power to price oil, the flow of wealth in Arab countries will be determined by the United States. Among them, Saudi Arabia, which cannot support the wall, has received the greatest support from the United States. Other Arab countries lose their ability to dominate oil, and their economies will inevitably decline, accompanied by constant domestic political turmoil. Under the two peach killings, the countries of the Middle East can not talk about unity, and the situation of the Arab world, which has improved slightly, has fallen short.

So why is ISIS a dog raised by Americans? Just by looking at who he bites, you know. Israel, the greatest source of chaos in the Middle East, the great enemy of the Arab world, has never bitten it, while the secular Iraq and Syria have been tormented by it. By the way, he sent a few divine assists to the secular Turkish Essotan, and successfully planted a nail in the NATO system, so that the EU did not dare to leave the protection of the United States.

Since the beginning of the 21st century, the revival of religion in the Middle East is actually something that the United States is happy to see. Terrorist attacks are nothing more than ringworm scabies, and no amount of people die on the heads of the elite. Once the Middle East is re-re-religious, it will completely lose the soil for the birth of great powers, and the Arab countries will no longer be able to challenge the control of the United States in the region.

Religion has been a tool for the ruling class to paralyze the underclass, and if too much scientific knowledge is taught to the people, it will become the fate of Mubarak. The only way to get the Arab nation to give up their dream of becoming a strong country is to give them an ancient narcotic -- religion.

With religion, the people of Arabia will stop thinking about it, they will smash machines and laboratories themselves, burn books that disseminate science and technology, cover women in black burqas, and then count on a book from a thousand years ago to guide them to live according to this pattern forever.

It's so handy.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this vision that Mubarak and the Arab League countries hope so much that the Gulf issue can be resolved peacefully, or at least within the Arab countries.

Once Iraq loses the Gulf War, the dominance of the Arab League and the pricing power of OPEC will inevitably be transferred to the hands of the hardcore US allies led by Saudi Arabia.

The current position of leader of the Arab League will inevitably be transferred from secular Egypt to Saudi Arabia.

In fact, even if it is threatened by the Iraqi army, even within Saudi Arabia, it is not entirely in support of the coalition to attack Iraq. Saudi Foreign Minister Al-Faisal has been running up and down since Kuwait's invasion, hoping to bring the situation under control within the boundaries of the Arab League. As long as Iraq withdraws its troops unconditionally, it has even promised to reduce part of Iraq's debts. Unfortunately, these efforts were completely useless.

But at least it shows that in the eighties, the elites of the Arab world were still very "angry".

Saddam Hussein's ability to achieve such a great victory at the beginning of the war with the coalition forces made Mubarak and other Arab League leaders a little overjoyed and at a loss.

The good news is that Iraq's combat effectiveness is unexpected, which proves that the Arab world, which is rubbed on the ground by Israel, is not naturally incapable of fighting, and it is by no means a national problem of the Arab nation, but external factors such as the system, leadership, and environment. Since it is an external factor, it can naturally be transformed.

And it is normal to be at a loss, and Saddam Hussein was not willing to negotiate peace before the war. Now that he has successfully withstood the attack of the Americans, he is only afraid of ......

While Mubarak was closely following the progress of the Gulf War, Cairo television obtained a press kit from an informal source. However, with a little professional sensitivity, you can see that this news material is by no means simple.

The tape shows the wreckage of the F117 shot down by Iraq and the captured U.S. troops, as well as the lives of hostages held in Kuwait. This shows that these people have not been ill-treated, nor have they been deliberately held hostage in areas where they may be attacked, but have enjoyed the protection of basic international law.

Without official Iraqi relations, this information would never have been disseminated, at least not to Cairo television.

Mubarak sensitively felt that this was not an ordinary news event, but a political shouting by Saddam!

As a political veteran, Mubarak was quick to seize the opportunity. Can Iraq's unexpected "civilized" behaviour towards prisoners of war and hostages be seen as an opportunity to bring about a peaceful settlement?

In the absence of a war before, the voice of the Arab League was ignored, and the strength of the Arab League was too weak. And now that Saddam Hussein has sent the chips to Mubarak, isn't this an opportunity to re-energize a peaceful settlement?

The Arab world has already suffered so much that Mubarak simply cannot bear to see Iraq, an important and secularized position, being shattered again.

As leaders of the Arab League, Egypt and Mubarak have the obligation and responsibility to stand up and save this tragedy.

Cairo television immediately caused an international uproar after it broadcast news from Iraq. No one expected that the Gulf War would begin with the defeat of the coalition forces.

Eight hours after the war began, Mubarak publicly addressed the world on a television screen in Cairo.

At this time, the command center of the coalition forces has not even figured out what exactly happened.

"Every president seems to have a situation when he or she is in office. He had to make a difficult choice about whether or not to send young soldiers and patriots to put himself in a dangerous situation. I believe that whether it is President Bush or President Saddam Hussein, and the leaders of any country in the world, it will be very difficult to make this decision. ”

Mubarak on TV lowered his head, showing a heavy look, and exerted 120% of his speech skills.

"The war in the Gulf region has killed and injured thousands of people, and there have been too many tragedies that are torturing the souls of our human beings. Suppose that we can reduce these tragedies by any point, it is the redemption of human civilization for itself. It is clear from President Saddam's situation with the prisoners of war and the citizens of the countries detained by the coalition forces that they have not been unjustifiably abused. It follows that Iraq is at least a civilized country, not an evil country that the Nazis generally cannot communicate......"

Mubarak spoke to the end, with a look of compassion and compassion, and began to cry out: "To prevent more tragedies from war, and to redeem the tragedies that are happening." I propose a 24-hour ceasefire in the Gulf War to be used for communication with Iraq to discuss the exchange of prisoners of war and the release of hostages from various countries. and, give peace one last chance......"