Why Won’t Morsi Back Down? Read His Resume

The New Republic ^ | November 30, 2012 | Eric Trager

[2ndDivisionVet]

From the moment that tens of thousands of Egyptians took to the streets to protest President Mohamed Morsi’s power-grabbing constitutional declaration, western journalists largely assumed that Morsi would back down. From their vantage point, criticism of Morsi’s move from within his own government, threats of judicial strikes, and the sheer magnitude of popular anger could force Morsi, in the words of The New York Times, “to engage in the kind of give and take that democratic government requires.” So when Morsi met with judges on Monday evening and promised that his newly declared powers only applied to ill-defined “acts of sovereignty,” both the Times and The Washington Post reported that Morsi had accepted limits on his power.

But it was not to be: Morsi’s assurances were only verbal and, as his colleagues in the Muslim Brotherhood emphasized, the original declaration remained unchanged. And rather than conceding anything, Morsi doubled down on Wednesday, commanding the Islamist-dominated constitution-writing body, which non-Islamists had almost entirely abandoned, to finish its work within 24 hours despite secularists’ mounting protests.

Nobody should have expected otherwise, because Morsi’s political biography suggests that he is not a compromiser. Prior to last year’s uprising and his subsequent emergence as Egypt’s first civilian president, Morsi was the Muslim Brotherhood’s chief internal enforcer within the Guidance Office, steering the organization in a more hardline direction ideologically while purging the Brotherhood of individuals who disagreed with his approach...

[2ndDivisionVet]

This is what we swapped for Mubarak.

[MasterGunner01]

But . . . but, the MSM and Barry told us that Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood were “moderates” and there was nothing to worry about. The evil Mubarak had to go. He's gone. Surprise! Surprise!! Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood AREN'T “moderates”. Oh, my.

[zeestephen]

Why won't Morsi back down?

The videos of Saddam being hanged, Gaddafi being mutilated, and Mubarack being sentenced to death probably influenced his decision.

By the way...

Did some of you notice that several news agencies began spelling “Morsi” as “Mursi” a few days back, then, they all stopped and began spelling it “Morsi” again?

[cynwoody]

Did some of you notice that several news agencies began spelling “Morsi” as “Mursi” a few days back, then, they all stopped and began spelling it “Morsi” again?

How is it spelled on his Ph. D. thesis from USC?

[AllAmericanGirl44]

Gotta wonder who they have in mind to replace Assad...
these freaks in charge are NUTS...

[CORedneck]

Bring back Mubarak. I am sure many of the Egyptian’s regret overthrowing him now.

[I am Richard Brandon]

The world is drifting back to the 1930’s - a world of ‘respectable dictatorships’, supine democracies, and onrushing global conflict. Now where did I put that Nuclear Bomb Shelter?

[justa-hairyape]

Gotta wonder who they have in mind to replace Assad... these freaks in charge are NUTS...

We have a criminal gang running DC. It will take 30,000 NATO troops to keep all of Assad's Chemical and Biological WMD under control. And that assumes he does not fire most of them off in a last gasp effort. Obama/Hillary/NATO did not care about the WMD's in Libya or Egypt, so they probably wont do anything about the WMD's in Syria. This means that thousands of people around the planet will be killed horrifically by these WMD's. And none of this had to happen.