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Nov. 26th, 2012 10:56 amhttp://www.juancole.com/2012/11/egypt-constitutional-crisis-morsi-to-meet-judges-as-weekend-clashes-leave-two-dead-hundreds-wounded.html
Do I have this right? After Mubarak was forced to resign, there was an essentially democratic election, though the candidates that did best were the current president, Morsi, and the previous prime minister under Mubarak.
Morsi won, and everyone in the west hoped that a government not dominated by the military would be a good thing, although people in the west didn't really want an explicitly Islamic candidate from the Muslim Brotherhood.
Now Morsi passed a bunch of laws that look like consolidating power and (probably) suppressing any dissent, and mass protests from everyone else broke out, leading to some deaths.
And the best we can hope for is that Morsi backs down and lets things drift along non-dictatorily, and we desperately hope it doesn't degenerate into another dictatorship, a putsch by the military factions, or slide into civil war. Is that an accurate (but extremely simplified) summary?
Do I have this right? After Mubarak was forced to resign, there was an essentially democratic election, though the candidates that did best were the current president, Morsi, and the previous prime minister under Mubarak.
Morsi won, and everyone in the west hoped that a government not dominated by the military would be a good thing, although people in the west didn't really want an explicitly Islamic candidate from the Muslim Brotherhood.
Now Morsi passed a bunch of laws that look like consolidating power and (probably) suppressing any dissent, and mass protests from everyone else broke out, leading to some deaths.
And the best we can hope for is that Morsi backs down and lets things drift along non-dictatorily, and we desperately hope it doesn't degenerate into another dictatorship, a putsch by the military factions, or slide into civil war. Is that an accurate (but extremely simplified) summary?