Hosni Mubarak Quotes
I couldn’t believe that this could happen in the Arab world.
the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt, Reflection on his feeling when Iraq invaded Kuwait, BBC The Gulf War, January 7, 2001
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Bush followed a tradition of American opposition to conquest. See Henry L. Stimson’s statement on the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.
What is particularly interesting about this passage is that a Middle Eastern contemporary historian and commentator compared circumstances to political events with the Umayyads and the Abbisids to those in Persia and Rome. Chosroes (Khosrow) was a Persian King who had his brothers murdered, and Caesar was viewed as a tyrant. Even then, the history of politics, in one country influenced events and attitudes in others,
His views are a mix of modernism and fundamentalism. He favors democracy and elections but also favored the Taliban destroying the great ancient Buddha statues when he was called an idol worshipper for urging the preservation of art.
See {633152} for more of the reasoning for this point. “Neocon” is a shortened form of “neoconservative”. At the time the neoconservatives were advocating use of military intervention in the Middle East. Munich was the German city in which British Prime Minister notoriously tried to appease Hitler and the Nazis. This led to WWII and has become the historical icon for appeasement of a powerful tyrant and the cost of such.
He was discussing the problem of negotiating with the Iranian government which was an unelected, dictatorial theocracy.
if they assist the Israelis. Just before the Six Day War, the Arab nations had reached the point where they were actually believing their own rhetoric regarding their military strength. Their grand delusion that they could defeat Israel easily and that Russia would militarily enter the conflict if the U. S. did, led them to severely miscalculate and provoke a disastrous and unnecessary war.
This quotation is a great demonstration of how much wiser and the better politician of all the crowned heads of Europe that Queen Victoria was. There were stirrings of freedom and desire for parliamentary government throughout Europe. Queen Victoria, even though and perhaps because she was a young woman, had a great feel for fairness and reasonableness and had read a great deal of history. There were some radical red socialists calling for complete radical revolution scaring European Royalty profoundly. They reacted very conservatively and with reaction, reverting to more tyrannical practices of the past urged in that path by very conservative, right wing advisors. Victoria also had little respect for some of the monarchs who had little interest in their people and much with their personal power and wealth. In the end, it was England which was the only nation which never had a serious radical socialist / communist threat, and that had much to do with Victoria’s political acumen and wisdom.
Muhammad Hosni El Sayed Mubarak was an Egyptian military and political leader who served as the fourth president of Egypt from 1981 to 2011.
