Posted on 07/26/2013 5:51:31 AM PDT by don-o
Pro-military demonstration scheduled for later • Judge orders detention of Morsi over Hamas links
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Morsi has neither been seen or heard since July 3. He is already an icon and martyr to the Islamists. If he died resisting the coup, there will be chaos. If his first words when seen are to denounce the coup and a call to his followers for “justice”, there will be chaos and mayhem. Can’t see how this will turn out good for Egypt. Egypt is already destitute. Widespread violence will make it prostate. The Arab donors will not subsidize it for long. Soon there will be hordes of impoverished but still fervent refugees pouring into the lands formerly known as Christendom.
They should terminate the MB, their followers, and their supporters, with extreme prejudice.
IMHO
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As you pointed out on the other thread, the urban / rural divide is very significant. There is more to Egypt that Cairo and Alexandria.
And, furthermore, I have serious doubts that any country with a large Muslim population can ever exist under anything other some form of despotism.
The basis for liberty is just not there.
>>>Yea and if it even remotely appears that a real democratic state begins to emerge, Obama will withdraw US funding before the water boils.....
check this out
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3047518/posts
Most rational people devoutly wish that the Moslem Brotherhood,the Wahabbi, the Taliban and all of the adherents of political Islam would disappear forever. However the political reality is that the population they represent is probably a majority and will not change anytime soon. In Egypt the majority is rural, poorly educated, impoverished and Islamic. America tends to view Egypt through the lens of the media which centers on urban Western oriented secularists. Unfortunately most of the Islamic world does not share Western values. They do however demand modern goods and to be well fed.
Then they've got a choice to make, and consequences to live with.
The greatest strategic error the US has made in the last fifteen years whether it be in Iraq, Afghanistan,Syria or soon Iran is that we can change political and social realities at the point of a bayonet. The recent jail break in Iraq where 500 al Queda terrorists that cost the live of many young brave Americans to capture underscores the futility of American entanglement in the internal affairs of these countries. Nation building is the silly fantasy of on sabbatical academics sitting in air conditioned Washington offices. The reality is that they, if they have oil, are forced to sell it to anyone with hard currency or they will wither and starve. There will never again be a 1973 effective OPEC boycott. The US should disengage from direct involvement in the Mideast. Our policies simply do not benefit the American people and actually destabilize the region over the long term.
From Source article:
I’ve just received this dispatch from Patrick Kingsley in Cairo.
Millions are expected on Egypt’s streets later this afternoon, but Tahrir Square – the centre of anti-Morsi and pro-army sentiment in recent weeks – is only just starting to fill up.
It already has the feel of a military pageant. There are perhaps 5,000 already there, many wearing photographs of General Abdel Fatah al-Sisi – the army chief who forced Morsi from office following mass protests on 30 June – around their necks. Every 10 minutes, military helicopters fly over head to loud cheers from the crowd. Smiling protesters have their photos taken with the soldiers who are securing the entrances to the square, some of them sitting on large armoured personnel carriers.
The Western oriented secularists, with whom Americans rightly identify with, have placed their future well being and that of Egypt on the ability of the Army to suppress and control the worst elements of political Islam. Historically this strategy rarely works. The tragedy is that Morsi, unseen and unheard since July 3, has become an icon and martyr that will inspire the political Islamist throughout the world for a very long time. Sorry to say but the future in Egypt is not one of peace and prosperity.
Your posts are ignorant. The opposite is happening, instead.
Egypt is peaceful even as millions protest and rally...and the MB has lost face by starving its poor supporters.
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