Will Egypt survive the fighting? (48)

Morsi was democratically elected; he should be reinstated--end of story.

Come on,, puh-lease and be serious and keep Morsi's Chicago-style politics in Chicago.

i was apparent to me on day-one that CS forums is inhabited with a lot of self-righteous self-anointed experts on everything. just like in the real world.

I believe this is how the youth here see as the direction the U.S.A. is taking in the very near future. Fewer good paying jobs are on the market or if they are, they are not full-time and receiving benefits such as paid health care premiums.

Well it has certainly moved into the non-peaceful protest arena. No doubt both sides will disagree for centuries on who shot first and in which town that was. Regardless I am wondering how many of the dead Coptic Christians killed in the attacks on the churches are among those dead bodies hauled into the mosques and exhibited as if they were dead protestors. I am also noting with some interest the death of several senior police commanders at the General level. I am wondering if that was instances of fragging or friendly fire. Kind of unusual for Generals to get down in the front line trenches. But also recalling the Egyptian Police used to draft their riot police forces from the populace and college students much as South Korea used to do. So this to me raises the fragging questionm and specultation as to with a few more days of this, will we see a split in Egypt's armed forces like we did in Iran 30 years ago or Syria more recently?

I think we have to go back to when President Obama refused Mubrak's request for 'one week more of time to halt the protests'. Would Mubrak's methods to halt the protest be much different than today's methods?

Likely not. But now instead of a week of violence in Egypt, you are looking at years of civil unrest and violence in the country. Liberal around the world saluted President Obama vision's for staying out of a middle eastern crisis. They saluted the Muslim Brotherhood as it came to power in Egypt.

Only they forgot, the leader of alQeada, Dr. ElZharwiri is a former Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood member. So when President Morsi began to crack down on the Coptic Christians, moderate Muslims and Egyptian Sunni with Islamic fundamental laws. They were aghast. el Zharwiri was part of the Sadat assignation of the Muslimbrother hood. All for Sadat's desire to have peace with Israel. Oh the radicalism of having peace with Israel! At least to the Muslim Brotherhoods way of thinking!
And Iran's thinking! And alQueada thinking!

Oh but how could that happen! Morsi won the election...he should play by the rules of democracy. You don't oppress the opposition in the democracy game. Shall I mention Iran and its oppression of the opposition, in its democracy? The leaders in Washington and elsewhere should have seen the oppression coming in Morsi's Egypt.

But they were slightly my-optic there.

So with a influx of heavily armed fighters from Libya....if it has not happened...it will. Egypt is about to be carved up like Thanksgiving Turkey. The Eyptian Army will try to 'protect' the moderate areas of the country. The radical Islamists already have a strong base of operation in the Siani and Port Said. While today's fight is in the Cairo's camps of the Islamist opposition...soon it will be up and down the Nile and around the Suez canal.

Now if the Suez canal closes for any length of time...who benefits?
The price of crude and fuel products will sky rocket with a Canal closure. So on my list of parties to benefit are.....Russia, a main exporter to Europe. Iran...still angered over the crude sanctions being placed on it for the nuclear programs. They are also high on my list for organizing and supporting the decayed situation in Egypt today.

So here is a toast to President Obama for his refusing Mubrak to halt this during the Arab Spring rebellion several years ago....