Egypt ousts Obama and his Syrian Agenda

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The Egyptians have never really stopped hitting the street since the revolution but the crowds had been getting bigger and bigger. They see the Muslim Brotherhood as being a) too religious and b) US policy aligned.
Things took a turn for the serious when Morsi attended a rally supporting the Islamists fighting in Syria. The people hit the streets and the army took the opportunity to speak in the populists favour and law down an ultimatum. A defeat for "political Islam", Al Qaeda and Obama.
CNN pretty much says it out loud.

And now Egypt has a new interim leader.
 
What's going on in Egypt isn't a defeat for al Qaeda or Obama - and what makes you think the Egyptian military isn't still well linked with the US? None of this says anything about what Egyptians, the Egyptian Army or the new Egyptian leader think about what's going on in Syria. There's a good chance people are divided on that and on many other foreign policy issues. This is about Morsi's domestic policies.

There certainly is a lot of division in Egypt right now and I'm not sure the army stepping in is the best way forward for Egypt. I have no love for the Brotherhood, but the army really shouldn't be deposing elected governments either. Now the Brotherhood will feel justified in any retaliation it takes and their numbers are significant. It seems that they won the election only because they were well organized and that they over stepped their perceived mandate. It's a mess in Egypt but it's mostly an internal affair and very little to do with Syria. Fact is you don't need to be a religious extremist to sympathize with the Syrians against Assad and yes it's possible to sympathize Assad's enemies without sympathizing with al-Qaeda or any other foreign interest.
 
Glaucus said:
What's going on in Egypt isn't a defeat for al Qaeda or Obama - and what makes you think the Egyptian military isn't still well linked with the US?
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I'm pretty sure they have fairly good relations - but Morsi supporting the rebels in Syria and the political Islam of the brotherhood are both in the US interest in the region. On the other hand the diplomacy is pretty broad and deep and they have their pick of puppets. If ElBaradei is in he's pretty US friendly too.
None of this says anything about what Egyptians, the Egyptian Army or the new Egyptian leader think about what's going on in Syria. There's a good chance people are divided on that and on many other foreign policy issues. This is about Morsi's domestic policies.
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They are - and the virtually continuous protests since the election of Morsi is a sign of that. While the brotherhood got a lot of Islamists to vote as a block the other candidates split the electorate. Sound familiar? But the protests were getting huge and the army took advantage of that - to the extent they deposed Morsi they really were representing the will of the people (though the minority brotherhood will complain and fight and claim that the will of the people has been thwarted just like some politicians do at home when a coalition representing the majority of the people looms to unseat a minority party). In other words, now that I have read your next paragraph ... I pretty much agree with you.

Fact is you don't need to be a religious extremist to sympathize with the Syrians against Assad and yes it's possible to sympathize Assad's enemies without sympathizing with al-Qaeda or any other foreign interest.
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Except here. You don't need to be an Assad apologist to sympathize with the Syrians who are under attack from jihadists trying to put them under Sharia law. The world is much better off if we have a stable secular strongman in Syria than if we have a theocratic dictatorship. For one thing, Assad isn't likely to be killing Christians and Jews. If we don't let Assad win then Syria is going to be further behind in civil rights than they are now and we won't have any party to negotiate with because the moderates won't be the eventual victors.
 
It's still a mess over there and the US government never got around to calling it what it is - a military coup.
 
Glaucus said:
... a site designed by Putin himself...
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Web designer as well?

Is there anything Vlad can't do?


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