Posted on 07/02/2013 5:29:12 PM PDT by Biggirl
CAIRO — President Mohamed Morsi was under growing pressure Tuesday to offer political concessions, facing a Wednesday deadline set by Egypt’s powerful military, a phone call from President Obama urging him to be responsive and an announcement by the Islamist Nour party that it supports both the army’s threat of intervention and a call by protesters for early elections.
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What a joke this “Arab spring” is.
My contempt for him knows no bounds.
> Morsi has received reassurance from the Purple Lipped Prince.
> My contempt for him knows no bounds.
Morsi, or PLP?
Morsi will be dead by the afternoon of our 4th of July celebrations.
If Mursi remains in power he will eventually purge the Army of its senior officers and Egypt will go the route of Iran. If the Army stages a coup, the Brotherhood will not go quietly and Egypt will suffer the fate of Algeria but without the oil and gas.
What we have here is a failure to communicate.
> the Brotherhood will not go quietly
Egypt has a very modern military.
I think that the Brotherhood will be crushed and martial law enforced under a brutal military dictatorship.
Brutal dictatorships and monarchies are the only forms of governance that have ever brought any semblance of normality and sanity to any Mohammedan country.
Moslem nations are virtually incapable of understanding, exercising, or enjoying Liberty.
Morsi is Egypt’s problem.
Maybe like Sadat.
Not sure that is the case at all. In Algeria the general populace was not agitating against the Islamists for the military to step in and help. The military had to go it alone.
Similarities yes, but nothing like a complete parallel.
Look for the military to end up not only removing Morsi, but purging the government of the MB. It will get ugly.
Did not one Sarah Palin say: “Let Allah sort this one out” ?
I'll never understand the west's suicidal preoccupation with supporting the radical islamists.
Me either.
Egyptian military calls on Morsi to stop bullet.
The point is that in Algeria there was a legitimate election that the Islamists won and the military denied them power. The Islamists were outraged and, although a political minority, with righteous indignation unleashed a torrent of violence and terrorism that effectively destabilized the country’s social and economic life. The military controlled enclaves and important oil and gas facilities which allowed it to support itself and feed the population. Algeria remains a bizarre place. Now it is true the Egyptian military is more powerful and proficient but it would be a mistake to underestimate the Brotherhood and the potential for a prolonged civil conflict. Egypt is already destitute and an economic recovery in what is really an overpopulated poor country will not happen. The West ought to prepare for hordes of refugees from a failed country.
Look for Morsi to be gone by the end of weekend.
>> Now it is true the Egyptian military is more powerful and proficient but it would be a mistake to underestimate the Brotherhood and the potential for a prolonged civil conflict. Egypt is already destitute and an economic recovery in what is really an overpopulated poor country will not happen.
Will you please excuse me? I can’t seem to muster a lot of sympathy for these moongod worshippers.
>> The West ought to prepare for hordes of refugees from a failed country.
Why do they have to go to the West? Let the Africans and the Saudis and other islamic hellholes take ‘em.
Too funny. The Obama is supporting the Muslim Brotherhood but the Egyptians are not.
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