by Jack
So the Egyptian military says enough and tells President Morsi and the protesters you have 48 hours to come to an agreement or we will step in and restore stability. In other words, a military coup d’etat. Wonder if they will be using our American tanks we just sold them to drive over the protesters?
Meanwhile the offices of the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo (something akin to our democrat party headquarters0 were mobbed by hundreds of angry Egyptians. They broke in, ran off the party members and then they stripped it clean. All the windows were knocked out, fixtures, air conditioners, lights..they’re all gone. Even the door locks were stolen. I found that fairly odd as this is usually how they operate, mobs, intimidation, looting…funny to see the tables turned. Too bad the military has lots of US hardware, that won’t make us look any better if push comes to shove.
“Egypt’s powerful military warned on Monday it will intervene if the Islamist president doesn’t “meet the people’s demands,” giving him and his opponents two days to reach an agreement in what it called a last chance. Hundreds of thousands of protesters massed for a second day calling on Mohammed Morsi to step down.
Military helicopters, some dangling Egyptian flags, swooped over Cairo’s Tahrir Square where many broke into cheers with the army’s announcement, read on state television. The statement seemed to fuel the flow of crowds into city squares around the country where protesters chanted and sang.
“Come out, el-Sissi. The people want to topple the regime,” protesters in the Nile Delta city of Mahalla el-Kubra chanted, urging military chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi to intervene.”
Worst case scenario we end up with another Iran and history will have repeated again.
Pretty sure Obama doesn’t have a peanut farm though.
“Wonder if they will be using our American tanks we just sold them to drive over the protesters?”
Jack … the Egyptian Army is entirely our creation. Where HAVE you been, lo, these 40 years?
It does sound like the Egyptians are coming together in one pragmatic mass. If Morsi can’t keep the electricity on and the water running, the Brotherhood is out.
I guess these cats are pretty pissed at Obama. He may want to extend his vacation a month or two.
Have you guys seen the stories about Obama making deals with the Russians to send 15,000 troops here for security reasons? If that is true do you think its because Obama sees what is going on in Egypt and he does not trust Americans to crack down on Americans? Is that what the billions of rounds of ammo and thousands of armored vehicles are for? I really hope the story about Russian troops is false if true wouldn’t that violate posse comitatus, or are the Russian troops a loop-hole? Peace Prize my ass!