RE: Egypt - Army seizes power.
July 4, 2013 at 7:34 pm
(This post was last modified: July 4, 2013 at 7:49 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(July 4, 2013 at 2:24 pm)The Germans are coming Wrote: Not sure if this is good news or bad news.
Mubarak style leadership may return and democratic movements will be opressed.
But at least the islamists are away from power.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23189180
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVqS817toVU
I don't know if it is a good thing or a bad thing either.
1. I suspect if there is really a substantial moderate Islamic fractions that was prepared to accept the compromise required to participate in democracy, such fractions have just become disillusioned about whether any such compromises could ever actually do any good.
2. Egypt's problem is structural. While a bad government can worsen it, it would take a exceptionally good government to genuinely relieve it, I don't believe the army could solve the problem, nor is it likely that the army will relinquish power to someone who could. So whatever government finally results from this coup would, in my opinion, also neither last long nor build any sustainable social stability in Egypt. So what will take its place when it too falls?
