Impressed by Morsi
An old friend who has become, sadly, a near caricature of an Obama hating right-winger sent me an email Tuesday noting that Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s first elected president had been invited to...
View ArticleThe Arab Spring: A Reality Check
A few days after the fall of the Mubarak regime in Egypt in early 2011, I published in TAC a somewhat bearish analysis of the prospects for liberal democracy in the Arab world with the headline,...
View ArticleEgypt’s Blasphemy Laws–Still a Bad Idea
It’s a strange variation on a common theme in post-revolution Egypt: the country’s burdensome laws against blasphemy are being used to punish anti-Christian hate speech. A hard-line Muslim cleric...
View ArticleIn Egypt, Protest Without Ceasing
After a surge of recent protests, Egypt’s military issued an ultimatum on Monday, giving Morsi two days to appease the demonstrators. If he does not comply, the military will impose its own ‘road map...
View ArticleOur Foreign Policy Once Made Sense
Understandably, the Muslim Brotherhood is enraged. Having won the presidency of Egypt in free and fair elections after the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, President Mohammed Morsi has been ousted in a...
View ArticleShiny Boots in Power, Egypt Style
One can read thousands of words about Egypt and have less sense of the culture of the military coup than one gleans through this video. It’s quite a piece of work, isn’t it? But what does it say? One...
View ArticleBlood in the Square
Can’t wait till the Olympics? Then whet your appetite on rhetorical acrobatics as Congress and the administration look for excuses to continue aid to the Egyptian military after the Cairo massacre. You...
View ArticleEgypt’s Army Crosses the Rubicon
“Sire, clear the square with gunfire or abdicate.” That was the message one of his generals gave the young czar Nicholas I in December of 1825, as thousands of civilians and soldiers massed in Senate...
View ArticleWhy Egypt’s Generals Are a Dying Breed
In the near term, bet on the men with the guns. The Egyptian Army, being slowly squeezed out of its central role in the nation’s life by Mohammed Morsi, waited for the moment to oust the elected...
View ArticleWill the War Party’s Fall Be Rand Paul’s Rise?
In what a Washington Post columnist describes as a rout of Rand Paul isolationism, the Senate just voted overwhelmingly to send another $1.5 billion in foreign aid to Egypt. The House voted 400-20 to...
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