Cairo is Burning!

Mea e 'ai e tatau ma le aso

"...Nothing new under the sun." (Ecclesiastes)

I saw the news this morning on CNN, headlined a raging revolutionary war going on in Cairo, Egypt.  It seems the incumbent president Mubarak’s government and his out of touch, spoiled rich family, (who by the way is the #1 ally of US in the middle east), and his recklessness may force president Obama's hand to get our troops in there.  

Let us all pray that this will not be the case, as our troops are already stretched thin with other wars we already shouldn’t be in.  Today’s event also triggered the price of oil to shoot up once again, while radical Muslims are circling the pose taking advantage of the situation to propagate their ideology. 

US gives aid that equals 1.5billion annually to this country, (as if they needed any money in the first place), while our fellow countrymen struggle to make ends meet to pay their bills amidst the current economic depression.  

Mubarak is a man that doesn’t even know there is traffic jams in his own country, because his highly paid cronies clear the road before his excellency is driven anywhere.  Tens of thousands of Egyptians fed up with crushing poverty, unemployment and corruption poured out of mosques after Friday's noon prayers and battled police with stones and firebombs, protesting their discust with the government.

Stepping up the pressure, President Barack Obama told a news conference he called Mubarak immediately after his TV address and urged the Egyptian leader to take "concrete steps" to expand rights and refrain from violence against protesters.  In his statement release, "The United States will continue to stand up for the rights of the Egyptian people and work with their government in pursuit of a future that is more just, more free and more hopeful," Obama said.

This official statement to a government that won’t even offer help to their own people after an earthquake and upon protest, Mubarak issues a shut-down of all communications to the outside world closing down internet, face book, twitter, cell phones, land lines, and any other line of communication, while ordering police to dispense US made tear gas canisters and tanks to quiet the fed-up crowds. 

Is this how your hard earned US tax dollars should be spent?   What does the Egyptian people think when they pick-up the empty US marked canisters?  Does this not sound all so familiar?   Remember Iraq?, better still, remember Aikupito (Egypt) back in the day?

The great king Solomon once said, “The thing that hath been, it [is that] which shall be; and that which is done [is] that which shall be done: and [there is] nothing new under the sun.  Ecclesiastes 1:9

This is the same land where the Lord God of host once said unto Moses, “… Pharaoh's heart is hardened, he refuseth to let the people go.”  Exodus 7:14

                       

Remember in the Bible, this started a chain of events which led to the plagues to fall on Egypt, then the Passover, or the saving of God’s chosen people, through the sacrificial blood of the lamb (a prophecy fulfilled in Jesus the lamb of God), to the eventual journey  (Christian walk) and entrance of His chosen people to “Canaan or Kana fou” (symbolizing Heavenly entrance)’ 

Are we so near that we fail to realize the bigger picture of Jesus soon return to take us home?  Solomon said, “there is nothing new under the sun” All have been fulfilled, and yet to be fulfill.  Are you ready for Jesus to come?   The signs of the time tell the story.

Ia manuia,

failauga p. anoa’i