Hard to believe but Jonathon S. Tobin at Commentary would have it so. According to him, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt have, in effect, surrendered to army power. Since the military coup their choice has been harsh, either toe the line and behave yourselves or you will have absolutely no part of any new arrangement for running Egypt's affairs. That message has been hammered into them by the army who have arrested their leaders and shot their supporters as and when they appeared, in decreasing numbers, on the streets. The important point, according to Tobin, is that the Egyptian people have also made a choice - of two uncomfortable dictatorial regimes on offer, on the whole, they prefer the lilitary to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Needless to say, with unerring incompetence Obama's State Department also chose sides and as usual chose the wrong side! They sympathised with Morsi and his fundamentalist fanatics and cut their support to the Egyptian army. This had one fairly obvious result, well, obvious to anyone other than the likes of John Kerry, that it has opened the door for the Russians to step in and see if they can be of any assistance to the Egyptian army! You couldn't make it up!
I argued on other blogs away back when the so called Arab Spring commenced that it would all go ape shit. But the thick lefties said there could be a socialist uprising and the islamists could be defeated! The Brotherhood will just go underground and wait as long as it takes.
What an opportunity Morsi had to make change but they are more interested in carpet kneeling and mullah power than equality and social justice.
So history is being repeated and the Russkies are back. Maybe the Russkies will sell them Duff tanks again.
Posted by: Glesga | Tuesday, 19 November 2013 at 12:09
Good news as you say.
Along very similar lines, a most welcome development would be for the Turkish army to fulfill its constitutional responsibility and get rid of the Islamists in the government there.
I fear that they have been nobbled, and that the legacy of Ataturk is in peril; this would be a dangerous thing to put it mildly.
The possibility of a nutjob state becoming a full member of the EU is not pleasant to contemplate, though for once I think we can rely on our "friends" the Kermits to make sure it doesn't happen!
Posted by: Andrew Duffin | Tuesday, 19 November 2013 at 12:22
Look, none of us knows remotely enough about those benighted lands to be able to judge whether any news from them is good or bad. Stop kidding yourself, Duffers.
Anyway, cheer up! The great pantomime that is Obamacare has got a new plot twist.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/11ee6fba-4fd8-11e3-b06e-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=intl&siteedition=uk#axzz2l0BrjaOw
I laughed and laughed.
Posted by: dearieme | Tuesday, 19 November 2013 at 12:51
dearieme
You don't need to be an expert to know that Arab clouds don't have silver linings!
Posted by: backofanenvelope | Tuesday, 19 November 2013 at 13:30