Posted on 07/09/2013 5:45:29 AM PDT by Biggirl
(Reuters) - Egypt's interim rulers issued a faster than expected timetable for elections to try to drag the country out of crisis, a day after 51 people were killed when troops fired on a crowd supporting ousted President Mohamed Mursi.
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No doubt a new election will placate the Brotherhood. Also no doubt that whoever becomes the new President and Prime Minister make their top ten list. Sadly Egypt will suffer the fate of Algeria. However it does not have the oil and gas.It is already destitute and the economy will worsen. The West should prepare for hordes of refugees, probably over a million within the year.
Just the excuse their man in the White House is looking for.
Big mistake. Quick elections play in the hands of Obama and the Muslim Brotherhood. Favoring sharia law does the same. The anti-Muslim Brotherhood forces need to up their game fast and the army has to realize that a new Muslim Brotherhood government will settle scores and kill many of those who opposed them.
Would not surprise if a good number of those refugees are going to be the Coptic Christians, marking the end of the ancient Christian faith in Egypt.
....And as a result, another military coup.
Quick elections? Isn’t that how they got the MB and Islamists in the first place?
Go figure...stupid dies a slow ‘death’.
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