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| I swear that guy has a vuvuzela! Image by AP? via Channel 11 Atlanta. |
Until a couple of hours later, carrying some groceries through the rain, when it came to me: Egypt, back at the beginning in early 2011, when the military ultimately seemed serious about getting out of the business. No wonder I couldn't remember; the thesis seemed to be rewriting itself all day.
They were never serious to the point where you couldn't doubt it. They seemed to be particularly frightened of Morsi and anxious to undercut him any way they could: running him against a single "conservative" (Mubarak relic) candidate, dumping their own constitution on him. But Morsi invariably defeated them and they accepted their defeat fairly graciously.
This is a little of what folks always call "just semantics" (unless they're familiar with professional practice in that field, it which case they might call it "quibbling about words"), but since it's apparently a problem for the US State Department to know whether it's a coup or not, could we say it's just the Revolution, with the role of the army being to make a perimeter within which the real conversation can happen?
Officer says army is leaving, says they were there for protection but were unwanted. Cheering. pic.twitter.com/JZTYMilNKXWhat a great motto for a military that would be!
— Kareem Fahim (@kfahim) July 3, 2013
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