Why Egyptians are cheering a deadly coup – for now
If a population seems overwhelmingly to support a deadly, vicious military takeover, it probably doesn't add much to label them as backward, bloodthirsty, or somehow incapable of democracy. And yet these have all been applied to Egypt's people, as the country has lurched from euphoric revolution in 2011 to a counter-revolutionary police state, enforced by the army.
Its first democratically elected leader, Mohamed Morsi, has been removed and detained; upwards of 1,000 Muslim Brotherhood supporters were brutally killed by security forces in one week; similar numbers, including three top leaders, have been arrested; and Egypt's media has either been shut down or taken over and the nation is living under emergency law.… Seguir leyendo »