The Obama Administration’s refusal to characterize Egypt’s military takeover as a “coup” even though that’s what the word coup actually means continued today, with Secretary of State John Kerry seeming to praise the junta for its action.
“You had an extraordinary situation in Egypt of life and death, of the potential of civil war and enormous violence, and you now have a constitutional process proceeding forward very rapidly,” insisted Kerry, warning against a “rush to judgment.”
Absent in Kerry’s comments are that the protests which were used as an excuse for the takeover were orchestrated by the military leadership with the express purpose of justifying a coup.
US law forbids military aid in the wake of a coup, a law which the Obama Administration is overtly flouting. Kerry says that the situation needs to be taken into consideration, though US law makes no such distinction for coups that the US favors, and in theory would leave that up to Congress to decide, as they did when they backed Pakistan’s last coup.
Wrong Kerry. The U.S. fomented the military Coup which is likely to start a civil war in Egypt.
Exactly. This is precisely what Emir of Katar argued, and tried to convince US and Saudi Arabia to stabilize Morsi government and not work to undermine its elected institutions via Saudi paid Salafist movement and its party, Nur. The hubris is on display here. Emir of Katar was forced to abdicate as the furious Kingdom would not have any Moslem Brotherhood government in Egypt. The movement has been brutally suppresed and banned in Saudi Arabia, just as it has been banned and violently crushed in Egypt throughout its history. First, by King and his daliance with British, then by Nasser and his socialist utopia, and finally by Mubarak, and his US and Saudi sponsored dictatorship. What emir of Katar warned about will happen. Hubris is geneating Nemesis, and civil war will break out. It may in turn sweep monarchies all over the middle east. The relics of the past are — instead of adjusting to change in Egypt — trying to turn the clock back and restore Mubarak regime. Such attempts are always short lived, and damage caused is far greater.
Using this logic, Kerry should bemoan the fact that John Wilkes Booth didn't act in 1861.
Well, if the state funding "civil wars" tells you that you prevented one … you might ask whose bullet-you-dodged.