I find it very hard to have any sympathy for crooks who spent their entire political career fattening themselves up at the bottomless trough of public money. I care not what their political persuasion happens to be: conservative, liberal, libertarian, communist, fascist, islamist, democrat, republican. It seems almost all of them are in it for themselves one way or another and I can’t help but smile when one of them has a sudden fall from grace. I only wish it would happen more often!
But do not be deceived about the nature of this new regime in Egypt. The coup plotters are not reformers; they are opportunists. These arrested men have now fallen into the hands of an authority that by any account has less legitimacy than they themselves possessed, which has fattened itself on the same public trough (actually US taxpayer money, most likely) and is eager to get their hands on their erstwhile allies riches.
Things are taking a very ugly turn in Egypt very quickly.