tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820814198873126054.post4514286517592196475..comments2023-10-20T05:51:51.625-04:00Comments on The THINK 3 INSTITUTE: Egypt: Coup de graceSamuel Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820814198873126054.post-5762783515956208322013-07-08T20:25:08.433-04:002013-07-08T20:25:08.433-04:00Crhymethinc, the problem with that recommendation,...Crhymethinc, the problem with that recommendation, well-meaning as it is, is that many in Egypt see the anti-Morsi movement as foreign backed, the backing allegedly coming from the Saudis who, despite their own fundamentalism, saw the Brotherhood as a model for something that could threaten their regime. Meanwhile, the anti-Morsi people are, if not anti-American, at least hostile to the Obama administration, presumably because the U.S. dared treat Morsi as a legitimate leader for any period of time. In this volatile environment, each side can accuse all others of having foreign puppet-masters.Samuel Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820814198873126054.post-67105183261662909022013-07-08T19:58:04.130-04:002013-07-08T19:58:04.130-04:00I agree. But they should also consider eliminatin...I agree. But they should also consider eliminating any faction that is (more-or-less) a puppet of outside forces.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820814198873126054.post-13276077842384313982013-07-05T10:39:00.832-04:002013-07-05T10:39:00.832-04:00Until last year Egypt had "majority" rul...Until last year Egypt had "majority" rulers only in the passive sense of mass acquiescence. If they want to avoid a cycle of elections-coup-elections-coup they either need a more ironclad constitution, perhaps even on the American model if they're that afraid of majority tyranny, or else they have to start trusting elected leaders. And if a large number of Egyptians can't trust the Muslim Brotherhood, perhaps they should destroy it once and for all while "revolutionary" conditions still apply.Samuel Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820814198873126054.post-49685273968184102472013-07-05T06:16:58.996-04:002013-07-05T06:16:58.996-04:00In a nation where the majority rulers of the past,...In a nation where the majority rulers of the past, oh, few thousands years have been despots. . .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820814198873126054.post-91557086283862111912013-07-04T20:44:42.290-04:002013-07-04T20:44:42.290-04:00I don't presume Morsi innocent, but as an Amer...I don't presume Morsi innocent, but as an American I grow cynical when any bunch of people loudly accuse another political party of despotic intentions. Samuel Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820814198873126054.post-21774443440058073502013-07-04T13:53:05.331-04:002013-07-04T13:53:05.331-04:00Well, there must be some reason he has been accuse...Well, there must be some reason he has been accused of attempting to set up a despotism. If it were simply a small number of dissidents, I'd give him the benefit of the doubt, but since it seems to be millions of people - as well as the military - there must be some basis.<br /><br />Neither you or I are there, so we can only surmise, but I would have to give the benefit of the doubt to the people of Egypt, rather than a member of a conservative pro-ismlamic group. Although I will it admit it is because I detest Islam (along with every other power structure posing as a monotheistic religion.<br /><br />Sometimes I think we should just nuke Mecca, Jerusalem and the Vatican and be done with religion once and for all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820814198873126054.post-50875443492917940862013-07-03T19:48:20.012-04:002013-07-03T19:48:20.012-04:00One way in which Morsi, at least, differed from th...One way in which Morsi, at least, differed from the Taliban is that he stood for an election rather than seizing power by violence. If a critical mass of Egyptians refuses to have sharia imposed on them by duly elected leaders, they had better make that clear in their constitution. Whether a constitution with that clause could be ratified by the Egyptian masses is another story...Samuel Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820814198873126054.post-75914521135957700662013-07-03T18:55:24.589-04:002013-07-03T18:55:24.589-04:00I think the Egyptians have a far better perspectiv...I think the Egyptians have a far better perspective on who Morsi is and what he stands for. If the Muslim Brotherhood is like the Taliban - seeking to impose Sharia law upon those who don't wish it, then they should be barred from power.<br /><br />After all, any individual has a right to live their own life according to those principles. There is no necessity to impose it upon other people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com