A report from the Egyptian Centre for Media Studies and Public Opinion has revealed that most people in Egypt are opposed to the removal of President Mohamed Morsi from office. Only 26 per cent support the coup, with 63 per cent against it; 11 per cent of respondents did not give an opinion.I think that this is a major piece of evidence that the takeover of the government by the Egyptian military was serving the interests of the Egyptian military command (SCAF) whose primary sponsor is the US and their crony Medieval allies among the Gulf Cooperation Council. Clearly it was not done for ordinary Egyptians or for even national interests. The Egyptian army is serving the interests of the Empire.
This is an illustration of the workings of empire, specifically, of the US Empire. In spite of US officials' performances in the media of condemnation of the brutal crackdown by the Egyptian army against the Muslim Brotherhood protestors, it is clear that the tragic events now occurring in Egypt and Syria are primarily under the direction of the US and its sidekick, Israel, and to serve their interests of domination throughout this oil-rich region.
As M K Bhadrakumar wrote today in Asia Times Online (with some modifications):
The dilemma facing[While] the Obama administration continuesto be that it is under compulsionto appear to support democracy in Egypt and live up to its own rhetoric to be on the "right side of history"but on the other handit is under even bigger compulsion to safeguard the US' strategic interests in Egypt, primarily in terms of the junta pursuing policies that serve Israel's security interests and preserving the 1979 peace treaty as well as continuing to provide privileged access to the Suez Canal for the US Navy that is critical at the operational level to the perpetuation of Washington's military dominance of the Middle East and its regional hegemony.
