Overthrow Morsi

National Review ^ | July 3, 2013 | National Review

[National Review]

And end the Muslim Brotherhood's dictatorial rule in Egypt.

By The Editors

Egypt’s ongoing crisis has taken its latest turn with a dramatic showdown between the Morsi regime, beset by massive street protests, and the Egyptian military, which has given it an ultimatum to accommodate the protesters — or else.

The so-called Arab Spring has perpetually presented devilish choices between different sorts of malign actors, but this confrontation isn’t a hard call. We should encourage the military to act to end the dictatorial rule of Mohamed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood. Morsi has made Hosni Mubarak look like a paragon of good government, without his regime’s redeeming qualities of being relatively stable and allied with the United States.

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[wideawake]

The problem is that the Islamists tend to stay united, while the Egyptian patriots and the Egyptian socialists will unite against the Islamists when the Islamists are in power - but fight each other and undermine the government when the Islamists are out of power.

[Kenny Bunk]

Go Army!

[Boogieman]

Does he mean our military or the Egyptian one? If ours, might I say “haven’t we done enough already?” If you think Morsi is bad, remember that we have no idea who we’ll get if we putz around there again. Could be better, could be worse.

[txrangerette]

Worse than al qaeda’s parent group?

[Jeff Head]

From the Jerusalem Post:

CAIRO - Egypt’s state-run Al-Ahram newspaper said it expected President Mohamed Morsi would either step down or be removed from office on Wednesday when a deadline set by the army for resolving the country’s political crisis expires.

Egypt’s flagship state daily said an army road map for the future would set up a three-member presidential council to be chaired by the head of the Supreme Constitutional Court.

Opposition: Morsi’s speech equivalent to ‘civil war call’; 16 dead in Cairo U. clashes”Al-Ahram learnt that with the end of the 48-hour period set by the armed forces ... it is expected in the hours that follow it, one of two things: either Morsi announces his resignation himself, or the declaration of his removal through the road map for the future set out by the armed forces,” it said.

Al-Ahram said the road map would set up a neutral transitional government to be headed by a military leader. The transitional period would last nine to 12 months in which a new constitution would be drafted to set out a path to presidential elections.

Egypt’s army commander and Morsi, who represents the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, each pledged his life to defy the other as the hour approached on Wednesday that will trigger a military takeover that was prompted by mass demonstrations.

The military chiefs issued a call to battle in a statement headlined “The Final Hours”. They said they were willing to shed blood against “terrorists and fools” after Morsi refused to give up his elected office. Morsi said, “The price ... is my life.”

As a mass of revelers on Cairo’s Tahrir Square feted the army for saving the revolutionary democracy won there two years ago, supporters of the president’s Muslim Brotherhood denounced a “military coup”. Some clashed with security forces at Cairo University, where 16 people died and about 200 were wounded.

I believe we will see movement...and it has probably already been happening...of military units to prepare for this.

Morsi cannot help but see it, and once the APCs, IFVs, and tanks start moving into position, he would be a fool not to "make a deal."

We shall see.

[bigbob]

they’ll have to check with Obama, he owns Egypt

[2nd Amendment]

Overthrow Morsi and the rest of the Islamic Brotherhood including Obama!

[YouGoTexasGirl]

LOVE the picture!!! The media in Obama’s pocket is about to go off like fireworks on the 4th!

My prayers have been for God to intervene for our Christian Coptic brothers who are being persecuted under Morsi and the MB relentlessly since Obama stuck his foot in this. Just cause he changed the minds of low information voters in an instant, this doesn’t work in persecuted parts of the world...as history shows us very well!!!

[cripplecreek]

Now we’re acting like muslim brotherhood are the only bad muslims but the simple fact is that the next guy is just as likely to be as bad or worse. I keep expecting Mohammad ElBaredai to reappear but he is just more of the same with a moderate face. He’s nothing but a global socialist which is what the whole idea of caliphate is about anyway.

Freedom in the mideast means you get to oppress someone else.

[preacher]

Video Of Egyptian Protests
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7KeY830sLE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[Common Sense 101]

Did Bill Kristol approve this article?

[grania]

This is what happens when people who are ill-equipped to have a say in their governance get to vote.

Did anybody tell them elections have consequences? Or is this another manipulation by the globalist ptb that didn't get a government to their liking in Egypt?

Overthrowing governments has consequences.

[Carry_Okie]

There is real peril in this kind of sentiment.

The police powers in Egypt, for the most part, did not attack the protestors, showing at least some respect for the rule of law. Hence, to remove Morsi now would be to demonstrate that raw force supersedes law. Should a new Salafist regime ever take the reins again, they will make sure that can't happen again. It is to inculcate the rule of force.

Although they do exist, there are few historical examples of militarist regimes stepping aside for plurality (Franco and Allende come to mind(, but they are the exception and not the rule. In my opinion, the military should have waited until Morsi's government did something so outrageous as to delegitimize itself completely in the eyes of the world. Of course, there is peril in that too in that Egypt's institutions would have collapsed so far as to protract a reconstruction, with much suffering on the part of many. One thing is certain: if Morsi does not back down and the military does not move, Morsi will purge it of every officer with even a shred of "impurity" and this situation will have backfired. Hence my concern at the potential intemperance of this move. It is a delicate balance indeed.

Time will tell.

[PhilDragoo]

[bmwcyle]

And then what? What will take his place with Obama in charge?

[JPX2011]

Hi!

Could you tell me what the dynamic is between the Salafis and the MB? My understanding is they’re both Sunni, but Salafi is the extreme branch, more puritanical and MB could be called more Pan-Arabic?

[TangledUpInBlue]

CNN reporting that the Military has the TV Stations now. The Coup is beginning.

[onyx]

You’re always right on!
MUCH BETTER than the so-called pros!

[Carry_Okie]

Could you tell me what the dynamic is between the Salafis and the MB?

No. I don't know much more about that than you do. Sorry.