Breaking: Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate declared winner of Egyptian presidential race
Mr. Morsi’s victory is an ambiguous milestone in Egypt’s promised transition to democracy after the ouster 16 months ago of President Hosni Mubarak. After an election that international monitors called credible, the military-led government has recognized an electoral victory by an opponent of military rule over Mr. Shafik, who promised harmony with the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.
But Mr. Morsi’s recognition as president does little to resolve the larger standoff between the generals and the Brotherhood over the balance of power over the institutions of government and the future constitution. Under the generals’ plan, Mr. Morsi, 60, will assume an office stripped of almost all authority under a military-issued interim constitution…
In Tahrir Square, at least, the confirmation of Mr. Morsi’s win is expected to bring celebrations instead of clashes. His designation as president-elect will hand the Brotherhood and its allies a bully pulpit to use the struggle for power with the military. The Brotherhood has sought to rebuild the partnership with more secular and liberal advocates of democracy that came together in the uprising against Mr. Mubarak, and Brotherhood leaders have vowed not to hold any negotiations with the generals without the participation of the other groups in their so-called “national front.”
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I guess this doesn’t bode well for gay marriage in Egypt.
SM4RT P0W3R!
profitsbeard on June 24, 2012 at 12:20 PM
Hmmm… the democratization of the Islamic world. That wasn’t Barack Obama’s vision.
It was George W Bush’s…
JohnGalt23 on June 24, 2012 at 12:25 PM
Now we know for sure — Arab Spring = Islamist takeover.
farsighted on June 24, 2012 at 12:26 PM
Stop being an azz. Bush was definitely wrong in his stupid democratization push, especially among arabs, but Bush NEVER turned his back on an American ally and would never have let this happen, let alone encourage it.
Everyone with a brain knew the muslim brotherhood was going to come out on top of the Egytptian revol… Barky did this because he’s an islamist supporter through and through and is out to screw over every traditional American ally around.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on June 24, 2012 at 12:31 PM
Gee wucking fiz, what a big surprise that a NeoCon-supporting president would have such an idea.
MelonCollie on June 24, 2012 at 12:34 PM
Cross posted by me from another headline:
Big John on June 24, 2012 at 12:38 PM
Something tells me on Jan 20, 2005, as he was announcing said democratization as his official policy, you weren’t giving GWB the advice “Stop being an azz”, when it might have actually done some good. No, I’m willing to bet you were too damned enthralled to speak up.
Some of us tried shutting that barn door before this particular horse got out. And for our troubles we got nothing but grief from the neoclown Right.
JohnGalt23 on June 24, 2012 at 12:44 PM
I most certainly was. I hated his perversion of our system to call it “democracy” and I spent my time pointing out that the arab/persian/muslim world could not be trusted with self-rule and individual liberties. I pointed to Turkey as the best that could be expected from the muslim world in that case and I pointed out that Turkey was only stable because the military held supreme power – anathema to Western sensibilities. The EU took care of that, though, and helped Turkey on its latest spiral down into islamism.
But, as stupid and wrong as Bush was about “democratization” he never would have screwed over an American ally (though I was making the same points when he pushed Pakistan to elections). The difference with Pakistan, of course, was that India was no traditional ally of ours. Too many people today forget where India was during the Cold War, trying to be the Third World France, heading the “non-aligned nations” against America.
Bush made tons of mistakes, but this Egypt disaster is ALL BARKY’s and Barky knew exactly what he was trying to do, here. Don’t blame Bush for this, He had nothing to do with it.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on June 24, 2012 at 12:54 PM
Further, I thought the strategy in Iraq was stupid. We were there for OUR security interests. The threats from the arab/persian/muslim world start and stop with control of the gulf oil fields (which we stupidly let the arabs and persians steal in the forced nationalization waves of the mid 20th century). We should have dispensed with Iraq (which we did very quickly) taken the opil fields and left the Iraqis to run around in the desert stabbing each other is the azz, as arabs are want to do. If they wanted our help in rebuilding they should have had to ask and beg us for it, but the threat that emanates from control of the oil fields had to be neutralized. After that, Iraq was of no interest to America. It was the secular leg of the three legged stool of threats from the sunni/shiite/secular threat from the arab/persian/muslim world to us and the whole West.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on June 24, 2012 at 1:00 PM
hillbillyjim on June 24, 2012 at 1:14 PM
Legacys.
Bmore on June 24, 2012 at 1:23 PM
Christian Amanpour must be giddy by now.
hillbillyjim on June 24, 2012 at 1:34 PM
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