The opportunity for Egypt to become the guardian against fundamentalism

After the bombing in Libya, Egypt is set to become a reference point for Western countries who intend to fight the Islamic state now reached the shores of the Mediterranean. Military initiative, Cairo does follow a policy initiative, calling on the United Nations Security Council resolution to retract under the UN raids Egyptian aviation; also President Al Sisi has asked the international community to support the intervention against the caliphate and to take part in further steps to eradicate the presence of fundamentalists from Libya. For the Egyptian president is a chance not impossible to grasp, to legitimize itself in front of the international scene and become a strong party against religious fundamentalist drift of several Arab states. It should be remembered that the current government of Egypt is in office because of a coup, he resigned the previous executive, to religion, duly elected, but that, once installed, has canceled the rights of minorities exercising almost absolute power and pursuing the application of Islamic law in place of the secular values thanks to which it was established the Arab Spring in Egypt. The ways in which the current government came to power have been harshly criticized by the public Western, especially for the use of violence, but it is undeniable that in different registries, while not admitting it, we preferred the current executive the previous one. The intentions of Al Sisi are also those for accreditation in front of the West in a way opposed to the other major Arab country particularly attached to the west of the world: Turkey. From time ties between Washington and then all its allies and Ankara have come loose for the new policy adopted by Erdogan, based on the application of a moderate Islam with the laws and the civic life of the country and the ambition to exercise their influence over an area comparable to that of the old Ottoman Empire. Under these new addresses Turkey did not provide adequate responses in the fight against the caliphate although present at its borders. The strategic location of Egypt could foster new relationships, also by virtue of the relationships already undertaken with Israel, with the rise to power of the military government of Egypt, has restored its own security on the southern border with the same guarantees present at the time of Mubarak. On the other hand it is vital for the West can count on an alliance with Egypt steadfast; the country is nevertheless an Egyptian influence on other Arab countries which is only slightly cracked with putting the call of the Muslim Brotherhood and its geographical position is a prerequisite for control of the southern Mediterranean. Of course it remains the negative factor of the ruling military junta and the fact that civil rights in the country are heavily compressed, but the same situation was also reached with the religious and the population is now divided on the benefit to be granted to a part rather than all 'other. This condition, in a very delicate juncture can promote the ambitions of Cairo, where Egypt will engage in the front line against the caliphate. The reaction followed the killing of workers Coptic Egyptians, not spies or soldiers, executed only for their religion, represents a number of similarities with that of Jordan, another country loyal US ally. Occurred, ie, what Obama had always required: a personal commitment of Arab states against the Arabs of the Islamic State, not to make a move as yet another campaign pledge Western colonialist. In addition, the matrix Sunni, both Jordanians that the Egyptians, indicates how the caliphate is disqualified from their co-religionists for being too extremist. The Egyptian case has its peculiarities evident: it represents, that is, the failure of western expectations of the Arab Spring and is a return to the past, where in an Arab state to contain fundamentalism must be a dictatorship. This situation, however, could have an evolution in a regional sense, where a power by force fit, in this case Egypt, could exercise control over neighboring countries to prevent terrorist drifts and religious dangerous for balances beyond the regional ones. Cairo basically you could earn the role of policeman of the southern coastline of the Mediterranean its mandate West. Such a development, confirmed by positive results, would put Egypt under a totally new light, able to overcome the mistrust for the authoritarian nature of his regime and become a valuable ally against the spread of Islamic fundamentalism.