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I'm genuinely confused about which side to support in this conflict, which is turning into a civil war.
The Muslim Brotherhood's candidate was elected, fair and square, in a democratic election. Yes, I get that Morsi then began dismantling the constitution, and perhaps that is cause for removing him. But shouldn't it be done democratically? Perhaps with a recall vote or something? And if that doesn't work, maybe that's just the fate of Egypt?
At the same time, the undercurrent following his election seemed to be severe dissatisfaction with the way he was running the country, and taking away liberties, and moving the nation toward a theocracy. So should we be on the side of Morsi's opponents?
And the military is the military—this is just another coup by the military, the kind of thing that democracy was supposed to fix. What's to stop the military from always deciding everything, despite a vote?
I'm naïve, and I admit it. And I'm guessing there are no clear "good" and "bad" in this particular battle. But I'd love to be enlightened a little by folks who know more than I do.
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I'm in the same boat. Can't one just be evil and one good/not as evil? Grey areas be damned!
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Why do we have to support anyone? This is an internal Egyptian matter; any outside interference in it will likely accomplish nothing at this point.
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It's just all fucked, I think. Ending the term of a democratically elected president in a coup d'etat is pretty shitty. I don't think Morsi was a "good guy," but this was handled terribly.
I'd be a lot less cranky about this if the US wasn't pretending that there wasn't a coup. If we admit it was a coup, then we can't provide aid to their military. It yells out to me that "you can have democracy if it's a democracy we agree with," and I think it's pretty bullshit.
I can't feel good about either side. Too much civilian death. Too much shadiness, and too many things are broken.
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"Yes, I get that Morsi then began dismantling the constitution, and perhaps that is cause for removing him. But shouldn't it be done democratically?"
Hmmm. "Democracy" is not in a strongman's lingo and many opponents find their democratic options rather limited. The president of Uzbekistan was democratically-elected after the fall of the USSR but has since made any opposition to his rule all but impossible. Hugo Chavez was Thomas Jefferson compared to Islam Karimov!
FYI in the previous story, I posted a video of the truck falling off the overpass and the several seconds before. I'd relink it here but I'm on my phone an it'd be a huge PITA :/
