Re Egypt’s Military Leaders Face Power Sharing Test

A response to NYTimes article Egypt’s Military Leaders Face Power Sharing Test

This article was intended as an analysis of the activities on the ground in Egypt. Any casual observer of Egypt would have made many of the deductions concluded by THOM SHANKER and ERIC SCHMITT in their "content-free" analysis; same deductions but not necessarily with the same scorn.

It continues to intrigue me that Western analysts continue to portray the rest of the world as being peopled with guileless about leadership or governance, barbaric and totally dependent on Western (often translated American) largess. In Egypt, many "prominent" American commentators lamented the lack of leadership beyond Mubarak, and many even wondered what chaos that nation will descend into if the poor, simple Egyptians  are left to their own clueless devices. The duo of Shanker and Scmitt did not shy from the same conclusion in their analysis, quoting another self styled "expert on Egypt", Anthony Cordesman,

Egyptian Army Chief, General Enan “has a reputation for being more progressive and has a better understanding of the outside world. But neither of these people have ever governed anything.” - i.e. Neither Enan the Army Chief, nor Tantawi, the Armed Forces Field Marshal has ever governed anything.

It is quite interesting that it is the same crowd of clowns that questioned Obama's fitness to lead the US because of his "lack of executive experience!". These chumps have a bloated sense of self-importance and remain delusional about their own arrogance.

The people who can not see the governing skills of Enan or Tantawi often celebrate that of dDavid Petraeus, conveniently forgetting that the American General have as much governing skills as his Egyptian counterparts - or perhaps less,  for one Petraeus has not risen to the post of Chief of Army Staff (Enan) or Joint Chief of Staff (Tantawi) yet, but there continues to be a call, albeit muted, for him to run for office as President of the United State. If Petraeus' commands qualify him for the job as leader of the free world, I bet these two gentlemen's qualification should not be belittled.

Of course my opinion, actually disdain,  about dictators and military rulers is well documented on this blog, but commentators on national (no, global) news sites such as the New York Times should exercise more fairness in their analysis of people and drop their bias of all this not Western at home.