Presidential adviser: War is our destiny

[DJKeefy]

Mostafa Hegazy, presidential adviser for political and strategic affairs, said on Friday that it is Egypt’s destiny to fight a war to regain the meaning of homeland.

“We have to know what we face in the present and the future to be better aware of the challenge and capable of standing up to it,” he added.

On his Facebook page, Hegazy wrote, “Wars of attrition are long, exhausting and they wear people out,” adding that those who lead such wars cherish freedom and home and act responsibly.

Hegazy said that the priority is to continue the political revolution which has ousted corrupted leaders and is leading to intellectual and socioeconomic change.

On Twitter, Hegazy wrote, “We are living a new war of attrition, in which the past that has died but has yet to decompose and the future has been born but has yet to mature. This is different from the war that broke out between 1967 and 1970.”

“The military war of attrition sought to restore the dignity of a nation before liberating its land, while our war today seeks to restore the meaning of homeland before building institutions.”

He said the current enemy lives amongst us and its army is ignorance, corruption, lies and lack of competence.

He finally said that the weapons used by this army are political foolishness, ignorant discourse and ingenuous thinking, which he said threaten to destroy the nation.

Source: http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/pr ... ur-destiny

[Hafiz]

Normally you would put these rantings down to bad translation. But not in this case. Hegazy, who is being hyper active in doing western mediahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo30kwWF0jo has an American accent devoid of Egyptian vowels. So I guess he knows what he is saying in English. This makes his rantings a worry.

Looking at what he is saying to the West (only moderately fascist) and comparing it with his local statements (homeland, unity and war) you get a picture that he speaks with a forked tongue.

I don't believe it will happen but a bit of conflict is 'good' for national 'unity' and a diversion from all the important issues and the failures of government.

Hegazy is also a teller of deliberate lies. Egypt has never won a war in the past 61 years. It never won a war under the previous British French period or the condominium. Muhammad Ali and his successors won a few bits and pieces in Sudan/Eriteria. Before that Napoleon defeated them.

Egypt never fielded an army in either the first or second world and Its co-operation with the allies in the 2nd world war was minimal and there were strong pro-Fascist views amongst the ruling and religious classes.

After decades the army is unable to bring order to Sinai. The recent publicity about terrorists in Sinai is a smokescreen to hide decades of incompetence or collaboration.

I've posted elsewhere about the keystone cops which are the Egyptian armed forces. Broken down F-16's barely replaced by new deliveries, a joke of a navy barely able to do civilian sea rescue, conscripts used to run army owned farms etc. If you are interested Robert Springborg seems the best western writer on the shambles with many articles on the web.

Only a fool or manipulative politician would be thinking about war at a time when there are so many social and economic problem. If there was an unlikely victory it would be the first in 150 years.

If the Egyptian army was on performance pay it would have starved a long time ago..

[Hafiz]

Normally you would put these rantings down to bad translation. But not in this case. Hegazy, who is being hyper active in doing western mediahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo30kwWF0jo has an American accent devoid of Egyptian vowels. So I guess he knows what he is saying in English. This makes his rantings a worry.

Looking at what he is saying to the West (only moderately fascist) and comparing it with his local statements (homeland, unity and war) you get a picture that he speaks with a forked tongue.

I don't believe it will happen but a bit of conflict is 'good' for national 'unity' and a diversion from all the important issues and the failures of government.

Hegazy is also a teller of deliberate lies. Egypt has never won a war in the past 61 years. It never won a war under the previous British French period or the condominium. Muhammad Ali and his successors won a few bits and pieces in Sudan/Eriteria. Before that Napoleon defeated them.

Egypt never fielded an army in either the first or second world and Its co-operation with the allies in the 2nd world war was minimal and there were strong pro-Fascist views amongst the ruling and religious classes.

After decades the army is unable to bring order to Sinai. The recent publicity about terrorists in Sinai is a smokescreen to hide decades of incompetence or collaboration.

I've posted elsewhere about the keystone cops which are the Egyptian armed forces. Broken down F-16's barely replaced by new deliveries, a joke of a navy barely able to do civilian sea rescue, conscripts used to run army owned farms etc. If you are interested Robert Springborg seems the best western writer on the shambles with many articles on the web.

Only a fool or manipulative politician would be thinking about war at a time when there are so many social and economic problem. If there was an unlikely victory it would be the first in 150 years.

If the Egyptian army was on performance pay it would have starved a long time ago..