Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy....
Do you mean “That Guy”?
Three things are certain in this life:
1. Death
2. Taxes
3. War with islam
“Imagine **someone else’s** name where you see Morsi. “
Imagine someone else’s name when you see Sisi? We have no equals here. Unlike Egypt, we have a “weak” military, at least at the top.
Never happen.
We have ‘’perfumed princes’’, not military patriots.
Our generals are pantywaists and entrenched sycophants.
Not a one of them would hesitate ordering troops to shot, strafe, bomb or kill protesting American citizens.
Looks like the NY times is trying to seize the narrative on behalf of the administration and portrait it like it was heavily involved.
It’s apparent to me at least that the original elections electing Morsi and ushering in the Muslim Brotherhood was something less then a free election and more of an orchestration of trying to make Egypt stable with the administrations preferred leader. If you’re reading that as the administration taking part and at the minimum turning a blind eye to election manipulation and fraud then you’re thinking like I’m thinking.
The Egyptian military, sensing that ‘20 million people can’t be wrong’ quickly stepped in and stopped a potential nightmare scenario of unleashed sectarian violence and totally surprised the State Department who probably thought things couldn’t move that fast. Why else would John “Thursten Howell the 3rd” Kerry be caught so off guard and then with all the administrations hubris behind him, deny he was on his boat vacationing while Morsi fell from power?
The Egyptians will continue to get U.S aide, the Egyptian military will continue to get U.S money and Military aid because the U.S needs Egypt more than Egypt needs the U.S. Egypt can easily turn to Russia and Putin for aid-in-kind and have a sympathetic friend in forming the type of government that Egypt needs at this point — a violently secular civilian government. Something the U.S can’t do as it continues to try and be all things to all people.