Bye, bye Morsi? 48 hour ultimatum from the generals

[Middle-aged Europe]

As long as it is followed up by another round of more or less free elections I don't have much of a problem with it.

It will be problem if it sets a precedent and the military decides to sack a democratic secularist president one day.

[Middle-aged Europe]

Supporting a coup against him is just as bad as supporting a coup in America or Britain.

No, it isn't. Well, maybe it is "as bad" as supporting a military coup against Richard Nixon in July 1974 would have been.

Which still wouldn't have been an ideal solution. An ouster (= resignation) because of the pressure from the street would be preferable. A military coup is only the lesser of two evils.

The greater evil is a president who's violently rejected by up to 48% of his population and doesn't seem to give a sh!t about it. That's the basic problem... from day one he acted as if he were only the president of the 52% who voted for him and everybody else had ceased to exist the day after the election.

[Middle-aged Europe]

The greater evil is a president who's violently rejected by up to 48% of his population and doesn't seem to give a sh!t about it. That's the basic problem... from day one he acted as if he were only the president of the 52% who voted for him and everybody else had ceased to exist the day after the election.

That was more or less Margaret Thatcher's attitude from the day she was elected until the day she was forced out by her own party.

Hasn't Obama done that? Was Nixon not the President of the "silent majority." That's basic politics.

I don't see how the current situation in the streets of Cairo are comparable to the situation in the streets of Washington, D.C.

How many people have died in anti-Obama riots recently?

[Middle-aged Europe]

Anyhow, what comes next is probably not any better and quite likely even worse.

Actually, I think "more of the same" is the most likely for now. We've gone full circle and are back to where we were in February 2011.

Will we see the next "military-backed revolution" in 2015? It's at least a possibility.

[Middle-aged Europe]

All things considered, I'm glad that Morsi's gone.

Sure, it wasn't done the clean way.. but it's an imperfect world. The alternative would have been more bloodshed in the streets of Cairo, now there's a chance that things come to a rest. For now, at least.