Posted on 07/07/2013 6:15:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The military's overthrow of Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood's fall from power in Egypt have sent Islamist parties around the region scrambling to preserve gains made in the Middle East and North Africa as a result of the Arab Spring uprisings.
The stunning reversal has instilled caution among some Islamists against pushing their agenda too hard, but it has also strengthened hard-liners long opposed to democracy....
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good, nobody likes them
I’ll bett the Muslim brotherhood in the region is is all puckered up...
Couldn’t happen to a much more deserving group.
Shakes them in the White House, too!
and in the Whitey House
And in the black house.
Piss on ‘em and their prophet, too.
What the military has done in Egypt is what the military in Turkey is Constitutionally supposed to do and has done twice in the past. Erdogan kept it slow and chipped away at the officer corps instead of trying to go full blast all at once as the Islamists and Communists did in the past, thus triggering the military in its Constitutional role as protector of the Republic.
Obama and company are doing the same here in the U.S.
Logically, since every member of our military is to protect and defend the Constitution, and the current administration is ignoring the Constitution to destroy its power, why isn’t anyone using the power of the Constitution to defend it?
Am I having a hypoglycemic episode?
The US military is focussed solely externally, at least until the Hopey Change is complete. The Turkish military has a different charter. Ataturk expected the professional military would keep an eye on the process and kick it back into the center of the designed road when it started going off the edge.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Heads up!
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