Patrick Cockburn
''Are the days of American predominance in the Middle East coming to an
end or is US influence simply taking a new shape? How far is
Washington, after refusing to try to keep Hosni Mubarak in power in
Egypt, facing the same situation as the Soviet Union in 1989, when the
police states it had sustained in Eastern Europe were allowed to
collapse?
The US is obviously weaker than it was between 1979, when the then Egyptian president, Anwar Sadat, signed the Camp David agreement and allied Egypt with the US, and 2004/05, when it became obvious to the outside world that the Iraq war was a disaster for America. At the time, General William Odom, a former head of the National Security Agency, the biggest US intelligence agency, rightly called it “the greatest strategic disaster in American history”.''
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