‘Yes, we can’/No, we won’t: The end of Pax Hillary

Mohamed Elbaradei, who has spent almost all of his waking life on American soil
and sees New York, where he taught and worked, as the center of the world, has
finally come up with a slogan to unite the Egyptian masses: “Yes, we can.” It
does have a catchy ring. The Tunisian revolution, he writes this morning in The
New York Times, “sent a powerful
psychological message, ‘Yes, we can.’ ” It is clear to Elbaradei who the true
leader of Egypt is: American President Barack Obama. But things took a turn
yesterday when Hosni Mubarak, who actually lives in Egypt, refused to yield to his
demands. President Obama virtually ordered him to step down. Leon Panetta,
chief of the CIA, announced that Mubarak would follow the directive without
hesitation last night. But he did not. Mubarak’s slogan might be, “No, we
won’t.”

Elbaradei accepts American cultural dominance of the world. He wants to be
America’s regent in Egypt. Mubarak does not. What is interesting from a
cultural and diplomatic point of view right now is that Mubarak’s Egypt joins a
list of countries that have sent messages that they do not consider themselves
to be pseudo-Americans, secondary appendages of American will: Israel, China,
Germany, France and any number of rising economies throughout the world in the
past year. What we see in Egypt could well be a continuing unraveling of
American influence in the world.

The horde plays to the camera and the vast American/global audience. It is a
model designed by Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap in Vietnam and has been used successfully
since almost everywhere. What could be unraveling here is not so much Egypt as
HillaryWorld, the one-world awakening in the early 1990s: a world not of actual
places made of earth, but, in Elbaradei’s phrase, “virtual space” where Bill is
the new celestial Suleiman, hovering in the stratosphere up there with Mistress
Andromeda. It is George Soros’s world, a world in which everyone is a kind of
American, an American by degree. Nothing else exists.

I would like to see Mubarak, or whoever takes his place, send Omar Suleiman
direct to Israel first off and begin discussions there. It would advance that
great, historic moment in 1979 when Anwar Sadat first signed a peace treaty
with Israel. There is more to be done with that, although there is no braver
man today yet to do it. It should seek to find that eternal world of places
that existed before Obama, before T.E. Lawrence, before the United Nations made
Egypt a marker on an American chessboard. There are holy and historic places
that still exist underneath. Because nothing in human consciousness runs deeper
than the relationship between Egypt and Israel. And nothing is as ephemeral as
the Pax Hillary.

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