Introduction
Even if we claim to know history, and talk about it a lot, and cite its events in our conversations or writings, our claim remains similar to an illusion or fantasy and nothing more. If our claim to know the mechanism by which history moves is correct, who would dare to provide an explanation for what happened recently in America and Bangladesh, through a convincing analysis of the mechanism by which history intervened, at the last moment, to change the course of the lives of two men and two countries in two successive blows?
In America, for the first time, the president decided to
withdraw from running for the presidency again, or rather they forced him to do so, by putting great pressure on him, so he was convinced with them in the end, and left the scene as if he was forced and not a hero.
The political explanations for this action seem clear and
correct. It revolved around a fact that was repeated by those who exerted pressure, from within the Democratic Party and others, that President Joe Biden has reached old age and is no longer able to fulfill the requirements of the position, after the disappointment and failure he deserved in the presidential debate with his rival for the presidency.
The president Biden is now 81 years old. The medical reports
written and signed by members of his medical team confirm that he is in good health and able to carry out the duties of the position.
But the difference between a politician and a doctor is that
the former works according to an old and proven saying that the end justifies the means. And that one day in power is better than sitting for a year on the opposition benches. While the latter works according to what he learned in medical schools and their laboratories, and what he gained from experience and experiments in hospitals, clinics and operating rooms. Unlike the politician, his predictions are based on the results of the examinations and analyses provided to him by his experience and high-tech medical devices. Therefore, the two must differ in the final analysis, due to the difference in interests.
The interest of the politician is to reach power, no matter the means, and no matter the price paid. The interest of the doctor is embodied in not losing his medical reputation and the patient losing his life, by being keen to provide a correct medical diagnosis of the patient's condition, and providing the necessary treatment and medications.
In Bangladesh, history moved in the opposite direction.
Unlike what happened in America, where the door was deliberately closed in the face of President Biden, and pushed him off the stage, he went to Bangladesh, and threw the doors wide open in the face of an 84-year-old banker, three years older than President Biden, named Muhammad Yunus, and brought him quickly from his exile in Paris, and put him in the spotlight on the political stage, in a country that had just witnessed a student and popular revolution, which led to the prime minister abandoning her duties and leaving the country in a hurry, fleeing for her life! What is required of him, as soon as possible, is to put the train cars back on the rails, and lead it himself to the station of peace, stability and prosperity.
Has the paradox become clear?
Muhammad Yunus, 84, is rushed from another continent and
appointed head of an interim government tasked with restoring stability to a country on the brink of chaos and experiencing a political crisis it has not known since its independence. In contrast, Joe Biden, 81, is being forcibly pushed out of the arena in a way we have never seen before, not because he committed an act punishable by law, but because of his advanced age. Because the leaders of his party have reached the conviction that he is unable to defeat his opponent in the upcoming presidential elections, which means the party will be removed from power.
Conclusion
Is it a difference in calculations between the Democrats in America and the revolutionaries in Bangladesh? To clarify, the leaders of the student revolution in Bangladesh know that Mr. Muhammad Yunus is a man of his age. His presence outside the country, in a geographically distant country, may have weakened his abilities and exhausted him psychologically.
They also know that he is a man who has never held a political position in his life, and all his work has been limited to financial affairs, outside the government offices. Where did they get the certainty that he would be the savior and lead them to safety, while he was only a short time away from death, according to his age? All of this leads to the fact that they resorted to gambling. It is an adventure with ill-considered results, and built on emotion.
The fact that the man is not tainted by corruption, and
enjoys international fame for winning the Nobel Prize, does not guarantee his ability to save 170 million citizens from complex living and political crises.
We hope that Bangladesh will not meet the same fate as Lebanon and the “Arab Spring” countries.
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