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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I doubt there will be a coup. The generals are fat and happy, thanks to decades at the trough. The smart ones have sent their families abroad on extended vacations, funded by fat Swiss (or whatever their preferred haven) bank accounts. The ranks of the younger officers are probably thoroughly infiltrated by Islamists. Egypt’s problem is the suffocating socialism promoted by Nasser as the wave of the future in the 1950’s and the Islamism (whose current incarnation also favors socialism, mainly as a populist tool) that permeates the world views of just about the entire population. What general would want to take on this tar baby as Egypt’s latest pharaoh?


13 posted on 07/02/2013 3:52:22 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Zhang Fei
The generals are fat and happy

In situations like this it's the Colonels you have to keep an eye on.

15 posted on 07/02/2013 4:02:11 PM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: Zhang Fei

We’re the generals fat and happy under Mubarak? Yep.
Have the generals been fat and happy under the Morsi? Yep.

The generals are going to be fat and happy regardless.


20 posted on 07/02/2013 4:29:42 PM PDT by tennmountainman
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