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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-02/how-did-the-u-s-lose-the-egyptian-people-.html

This is but one article on the matter, and the pertinent line is about the imminent threat of military coup. It is easy for these largely urban protestors to forget that Morsi was elected pretty fairly, and that most Egyptians support his vision. What this could lead to, depending on if the military goes through with it, is for some of the Brotherhood's more radical elements or more radical contacts (perhaps some of the folks who have recently been shooed out of Mali), to come in and fight for the average rural Muslim, or end up with an Algeria-esque situation (and a similarly bloody civil war).

I really did not think it would come to this. I presumed that both Morsi and the opposition would be more tactful (with Morsi focusing more on general democratic reforms than on a specific Islamist agenda, and with the secular democrats understanding that at least he was elected democratically, and that their time shall come as demographics switch in their favor).

It's really the threat of coup that's the shocker. I thought the military was secure enough that they didn't need to make any extralegal moves to preserve themselves.



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