Friday, July 05, 2013

Just One Question...

...prompted by this comment on a BBC story re. Egypt: "A coup supported by majority of citizens should be called a revolution."

When is a coup just a coup and when is it a revolution?

PS: I like what he says:
"When you elect fanatics, .... you have not advanced democracy. You have empowered people who are going to wind up subverting democracy. The important thing is to get people like that out of power, even if it takes a coup. The goal is to weaken political Islam, by nearly any means."
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"Once elected, the Brotherhood subverted judicial review, cracked down on civil society, arrested opposition activists, perverted the constitution-writing process, concentrated power and made democratic deliberations impossible."

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