The Protest Movement in
Egypt: "Dictators" do not Dictate, They Obey Orders
by Michel Chossudovsky
The Mubarak regime could collapse in the face of a nationwide protest
movement... What prospects for Egypt and the Arab World?
"Dictators" do not dictate, they obey orders. This is true in
Egypt, Tunisia and Algeria.
Dictators are invariably political puppets. Dictators do not decide. President Hosni Mubarak was a faithful servant of Western economic interests and so was Ben Ali.
The national government is the object of the protest movement. The objective is to unseat the puppet rather than the
puppet-master. The slogans in Egypt are "Down with Mubarak, Down with the Regime". No anti-American posters have been
reported... The overriding and destructive influence of the USA in Egypt and throughout the Middle East remains
unheralded. The foreign powers which operate behind the scenes are shielded from the protest
movement. No significant political change will occur unless the issue of foreign interference is meaningfully addressed by the protest
movement. The US embassy in Cairo is an important political entity, invariably overshadowing the national
government. The Embassy is not a target of the protest movement.
