Newsflash: The Egyptian military is 100% Muslim. They are much closer to the Muslim Brotherhood than they are to anyone who believes in freedom and civil rights.
The Egyptian officer corps, which includes a fair sprinkling of Copts, and the other rankers, enjoy a life style so far superior to the man in the street that it is in their best interests to keep things as they are. Which, by the way, ain't all that bad, compared to other places!
My money is on an interim government with elections next year. Our government is insane to back the MB. The Mombasa Moonbeam himself has backed way off them. (He must have gotten a Blacberry from Soros.)
I do take your point, though. It is is entirely possible that MB cells in the military will cause trouble. But this army has elite units who can take them on very quickly. There is also the AF and the Navy, whose loyalty to Mubarak is, I bet, very strong.
BTW, the military is very well respected ... not feared .... by the Gippo in the street. That's why the soldiers have exercised remarkable restraint and forbearance in dealing with the demonstrators. As I say, give it a week. The MB might just be looking for martyrs to keep this alive, but Egyptians don't do the martyr thing very well.
Even our POTUS, idiotic fool and ideologue that he is, has cooled his pro-MB rhetoric
Newsflash: anti-Islamic bigotry has pickled your brain. You don’t know what you’re talking about re: the Egyptian Army.
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NewsFlash! Many Egyptian officers were trained in the good ole USA.....where the heck you think Egypt sends pilots for F-16 training.....;) Where do the Egyptian maintenance officers go....jeese. Pull your head out and quit believing pew and the rest of the commie rags.....