Can the News from Egypt get any more full of BS? Who likes the Moslem Brotherhood... nobody. But damn if they wouldn't be a far sight better than that undemocratic group of generals running the place now. Why? Because at least the Moslem Brotherhood was elected.
Instead, Fuckin Mubarak is back in spirit and with a bullet, not to mention with bans on gatherings of 10 or more persons except - presumably - at world Cup Qualifiers (and Egypt is out of WC, so forget those). And while Generals worthy of the legacy of the Argentine Junta or Somoza crush Egyptian democrats in the name of crushing elected Islamics, once again America is betraying democracy and siding with the generals... as if Reagan or Nixon or even Truman were in the white house.
WTF Obama... Can't you at least TRY and live up to that Nobel that the Scandanavians, so full of foolish and misplaced hope, gave you?
Everybody hates the Moslem Brotherhood. But as Morsi himself said, there are constitutional mechanisms for removing an elected president from power. Egypt and democracy are better off when laws rather than power are used.
In the meantime, here is what America's policy ought to be: The enemy of any democracy should be our enemy. That goes for generals in Egypt, China, or civilian tyrants anywhere in the world. We can't have a hot war or even a cold war with everybody that disagrees with us, but we should buddy up to antidemocratic leaders only to the extent that we think we can move them towards supporting democracy.
Jeez, if that sounds a little like simplistic W-think, so be it. There is a time and place, once in a while, even for ideological certainty. We believe in democracy. We know it is the one right form of government. We should support it, no matter what, no matter where.
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