More and more I am coming to see what happened in Egypt as a military coup rather than a revolution. The Egyptian military could not stomach Hosni Mubarak putting his son into replace him and rather than conduct a military coup which would have largely isolated the regime in Egypt (except from the Saudis), they latched onto popular discord about various issues to depose him. Will the elections later this year be free and fair? I doubt it. Will the military return to their barracks? Unlikely. Perhaps Tantawi will become a "civilian" president and "defender of the revolution". The Jacobins in France, the Communists in Russia and China, the Islamists in Iran, and for that matter, the Americans back in 1776, understood how to succeed with a revolution. The more radical elements on the Parliamentarian side in the English Civil War did not. The first thing to do is liquidate the "ancien regime".
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More and more I am coming to see what happened in Egypt as a military coup rather than a revolution. The Egyptian military could not stomach Hosni Mubarak putting his son into replace him and rather than conduct a military coup which would have largely isolated the regime in Egypt (except from the Saudis), they latched onto popular discord about various issues to depose him. Will the elections later this year be free and fair? I doubt it. Will the military return to their barracks? Unlikely. Perhaps Tantawi will become a "civilian" president and "defender of the revolution".
The Jacobins in France, the Communists in Russia and China, the Islamists in Iran, and for that matter, the Americans back in 1776, understood how to succeed with a revolution. The more radical elements on the Parliamentarian side in the English Civil War did not. The first thing to do is liquidate the "ancien regime".
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