[Pan_Yan]

Remember, Egypt elected the Muslim Brotherhood. My theory is the military, which runs the economy, cut off food and fuel while Morsi was in office. It seems to have suddenly returned after he was deposed. That still leaves the problem that the majority are Islamists.

[hinckley buzzard]

Meanwhile in Tunisia, where all this "liberation" started, islamist extremists have assassinated two leading "moderate" political leaders in the last few months. Arab Spring. This is what democracy looks like. Right.

[silverleaf]

My theory is that the MB, emboldened by their political win and by the islamists in the US State Department, CIA and WH, overplayed their hand in targeting Egyptian military leaders and secularists and anyone else an MB officio had a grudge against, for confiscation, trial, assassinations and executions

the MB does not play nice with other kids and never had any intention of sharing the sandbox

But Egypt is not Iran and the Egyptian military and educated upper and upper-middle classes, unlike the Shahs military and Iranian upper/mmiddle classes, did not abandon the country to psycho theocrat zealots or let themselves go gently (or ungently) into the night

[Yiorgos]

This is what you get for having an “Arab Spring.” It’s a choice between Islamic dictatorship, or secular dictatorship. And to think that there are “conservatives” who support this farce of “Arab Democracy.”

[Venturer]

“We will stay here until we die, one by one,” said Ahmed Ali, 24

Be careful what you wish for Ahmed, the military seems happy to be of service.

[af_vet_rr]

Remember, Egypt elected the Muslim Brotherhood. My theory is the military, which runs the economy, cut off food and fuel while Morsi was in office. It seems to have suddenly returned after he was deposed. That still leaves the problem that the majority are Islamists.

Morsi got 24% of the vote in the first go-round. In the runoff, he got 51%, with quite a few staying home in both elections (or however many there were), so the Brotherhood did not necessarily have a majority.

My guess is that a lot of the low-information voters thought the MB wouldn't be as bad as they were, and things were going okay, then Morsi started doing exactly what a lot of folks predicted - carrying out the MB agenda. This upset a lot of people, the military sided with the non-extremists, and now we have the civil war that was predicted.