Larison on Brooks on Egypt

By EmmaZahn on Sat, 07/06/2013 - 8:24pm |

Brooks is saying that the goal should be to rig the system against them and to do almost anything that is required to rig it that way. What makes this even more foolish is that Morsi and his allies were already failing. It would have been only a matter of time until they would have been defeated at the next election, and then there would have been no question that they had been rejected on the grounds that their tenure had indeed been a disaster. The coup allow Morsi and his supporters to claim that they have been robbed, and it is unlikely that they are going to take that lying down. That is a recipe for continued strife and instability, which are exactly what Egypt can least afford.

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http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/the-egyptian-coup-and-political-islam/