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Egyptians Say Good-Bye to ‘Arab Spring,’ Say Hello to New Military Dictatorship

Posted on | July 3, 2013 | 43 Comments

It tells us a lot about the Obama administration’s foreign policy “success” that, after his encouragement of pro-democracy movements in the Arab world, the Egyptians actually rioted to demand that the military take over and relieve them of the “democratic” government they had elected. Ben Shapiro reports at Breitbart.com:

On Wednesday, Gen. Abdel Fatah Said Al-Sisi announced a military coup in Egypt. He said that the Constitution had been suspended, that early elections would take place, and that there would be a “code of ethics” for the media.

There is a big stack of aggregation at Memeorandum. It’s really sad to say that “democracy” in Egypt was a very bad idea to begin with, and to hope that the general’s talk of elections is a lie. To view democracy as a principle — as a litmus test of governmental legitimacy without regard for what any elected regime may do — is the kind of nonsense that political science professors may claim to believe, but this ignores the horrors that have been inflicted upon innocents by democratic governments. For example, Detroit . . .

UPDATE: Speaking of failed democracies:

 

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43 Responses to “Egyptians Say Good-Bye to ‘Arab Spring,’ Say Hello to New Military Dictatorship”

  1. Lockestep1776
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 5:43 pm

    Egyptians Say Good-Bye to ‘Arab Spring,’ Say Hello to New Military Dictatorship: It tells us a lot about the O… http://t.co/JOyLs0ECbr

  2. MrEvilMatt
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 5:43 pm

    Egyptians Say Good-Bye to ‘Arab Spring,’ Say Hello to New Military Dictatorship: It tells us a lot about the O… http://t.co/EBzDYJudW9

  3. Citzcom
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 5:43 pm

    Egyptians Say Good-Bye to ‘Arab Spring,’ Say Hello to New Military Dictatorship: It tells us a lot about the O… http://t.co/CuQ9h40Mow

  4. jwbrown1969
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 5:43 pm

    Egyptians Say Good-Bye to ‘Arab Spring,’ Say Hello to New Military Dictatorship: It tells us a lot about the O… http://t.co/jTpiGjODxn

  5. rsmccain
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 5:49 pm

    NEWS FLASH: Democracy Doesn’t Work in Backward Third World Cultures Like Egypt or Detroit http://t.co/BHW4gIfP9X

  6. vermontaigne
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 5:50 pm

    RT @rsmccain: NEWS FLASH: Democracy Doesn’t Work in Backward Third World Cultures Like Egypt or Detroit http://t.co/BHW4gIfP9X

  7. AmPowerBlog
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 5:51 pm

    RT @rsmccain: NEWS FLASH: Democracy Doesn’t Work in Backward Third World Cultures Like Egypt or Detroit http://t.co/BHW4gIfP9X

  8. TADiLascio
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 5:52 pm

    RT @rsmccain: NEWS FLASH: Democracy Doesn’t Work in Backward Third World Cultures Like Egypt or Detroit http://t.co/BHW4gIfP9X

  9. Dianna Deeley
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 6:03 pm

    “… this ignores the horrors that have been inflicted upon innocents by democratic governments.”

    *Sigh*

    All too horribly true. It’s just that I keep rooting for people to do the right thing for themselves, while gloomily expecting they won’t.

    Just once, I’d like to be wrong in my cynicism. Is that too much to ask?

  10. thatMrGguy
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 6:10 pm

    Egyptians Say Good-Bye to ‘Arab Spring,’ Say Hello to New Military Dictatorship http://t.co/TfOGUbXgwW

  11. Josh_Painter
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 6:14 pm

    RT @rsmccain: NEWS FLASH: Democracy Doesn’t Work in Backward Third World Cultures Like Egypt or Detroit http://t.co/BHW4gIfP9X

  12. Chris Wysocki
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 6:19 pm

    Alas the people of Detroit aren’t smart enough to demand a military coup.

  13. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 6:28 pm

    Or you could frame it as: Military dictatorship a hell of a lot better alternative than Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood thugs…

  14. PghRunner74
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 6:30 pm

    RT @rsmccain: NEWS FLASH: Democracy Doesn’t Work in Backward Third World Cultures Like Egypt or Detroit http://t.co/BHW4gIfP9X

  15. robertstacymccain
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 6:31 pm

    Dianna, it started with Aaron Burr. By the time we got to the Jackson presidency, the fanaticism for “democracy” was probably so far gone as to be terminal. And then we gave women the vote …

    Doomed. Hopelessly doomed.

  16. Neo
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 6:49 pm

    What is interesting in the statements was the use of the word “technocrat” as a good thing. It seems that most of the outgoing government had spent most of their waking hours, prior to joining the Morsi government, praying and reading the Quran all day, and had no executive experience.

    “No executive experience” .. hmm .. I’ve seen this somewhere else before today .. but where ?

  17. Wombat_socho
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 6:50 pm

    My ancestors should never have let you Anglos into the Western Hemisphere. 🙂

  18. Wombat_socho
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 6:50 pm

    That was a rhetorical question, right?

  19. instapundit
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 6:56 pm

    RT @rsmccain: NEWS FLASH: Democracy Doesn’t Work in Backward Third World Cultures Like Egypt or Detroit http://t.co/BHW4gIfP9X

  20. JannieAlexa
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 6:57 pm

    NEWS FLASH: Democracy Doesn’t Work in Backward Third World Cultures Like Egypt or Detroit http://t.co/JL1ojelguz … | via @rsmccain #tcot

  21. bet0001970
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 7:09 pm

    I’m not sure why the Christians would be fleeing when they were one of the most outspoken groups asking to have Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood thugs deposed by the military. They were out on the streets with all of the protesters. Hell, they had the biggest incentive of all to get rid of Morsi. They were being killed by him and the MB. So I don’t know what Kirsten is on about.

    That twat of an ambassador that we have over there, Patterson (who is utterly despised by the Egyptians, btw), actually requested that the Coptic Pope tell the Christians to stay out of the protests. Seriously. Our Ambassador asked that the people who were being slaughtered en masse just…shut up about it.

    This is what our government is doing over there. Makes you wonder what the hell we were doing in Benghazi. Makes you wonder what the hell we’ve been doing everywhere else.

  22. AlGarciaUSA
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 7:13 pm

    Egyptians Say Good-Bye to ‘Arab Spring,’ Say Hello to New Military Dictatorship http://t.co/q2lFh6MCGU via @feedly

  23. marezipenn
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 7:16 pm

    RT @rsmccain: NEWS FLASH: Democracy Doesn’t Work in Backward Third World Cultures Like Egypt or Detroit http://t.co/BHW4gIfP9X

  24. bet0001970
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 7:18 pm

    I just went back through her stream. I had re-read that tweet. Totally misunderstood that. The exodus of the Christians was BECAUSE of Morsi.

    My bad.

  25. mcg0958
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 7:19 pm

    RT @rsmccain: NEWS FLASH: Democracy Doesn’t Work in Backward Third World Cultures Like Egypt or Detroit http://t.co/BHW4gIfP9X

  26. Bob Belvedere
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 7:58 pm

    Some of mine came here in 1710 and married with the later-arriving Scots-Irish [and eventually even a Cherokee] and I would have gladly welcomed the McCains to the Colonies.

  27. Bob Belvedere
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 8:01 pm

    This fetish for Liberal Democracy is Leftist in origin and one hopes that, in the coming decades, it will be thrown on the dung-heap of history where it belongs.
    I ultimately blame that pinko Jefferson.

  28. Richard McEnroe
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 8:13 pm

    I’m looking to hitch up with a Cherokee soon. How long did it take your family to recover ?

  29. wizguy123
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 8:22 pm

    RT @rsmccain: NEWS FLASH: Democracy Doesn’t Work in Backward Third World Cultures Like Egypt or Detroit http://t.co/BHW4gIfP9X

  30. rsmccain
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 8:24 pm

    RT @thatMrGguy: Egyptians Say Good-Bye to ‘Arab Spring,’ Say Hello to New Military Dictatorship http://t.co/TfOGUbXgwW

  31. rsmccain
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 8:24 pm

    RT @MrEvilMatt: Egyptians Say Good-Bye to ‘Arab Spring,’ Say Hello to New Military Dictatorship: It tells us a lot about the O… http://t.…

  32. Bob Belvedere
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 8:36 pm

    We never did.

  33. Dianna Deeley
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 9:57 pm

    Are we allowed to use four-syllable words?

  34. Dianna Deeley
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 9:58 pm

    I don’t really want to imagine Detroit and a military coup in the same sentence.

  35. Dianna Deeley
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 9:59 pm

    I wish to point out that I bloody well deserve a vote, if only as a property owner, if not as a person of the female persuasion!

  36. Adjoran
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 10:26 pm

    We had a horrible run of Amendments from 16 to 19, inclusive. Pity we could only get one of them repealed, at least it was the most important.

  37. Adjoran
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 10:30 pm

    There are certain conditions required for democracy (in any of its forms) to work. The right to private property and to contract, and to enforce one’s own rights in court are a few. An independent judiciary is another. The rule of law instead of men is paramount (and under Obama even the US is seeing how precariously that bedrock principle can be perched).

    Without all these things, democracy inevitably degenerates into mob rule, despotism, or some combination of the two.

  38. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 11:00 pm

    Of course you really are Cherokee, as opposed to Elizabeth Warren is is really only a leftist.

  39. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 11:03 pm

    http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2013/07/five-things-media-wont-tell-you-about.html Lid is spot on. Egypt’s military is not really an army, than it is a big crony capitalism baksheesh network of civilian and government entities. They have their fingers into everything and the Muslim Brotherhood have managed to destroy the economy in Egypt.

  40. Emilio_Crosby
    July 4th, 2013 @ 9:57 am

    Egyptians Say Good-Bye to ‘Arab Spring,’ Say Hello to New Military Dictatorship http://t.co/8WpLy2NlDS

  41. Rich Vail
    July 4th, 2013 @ 10:38 am

    The tax-payer gambit…if you pay taxes you vote, if you’re on the dole, you don’t get to vote…that way you can’t influence politicians to give you more “free stuff”…

  42. Well, @MonaEltahawy Is Indisputably Correct: Max Blumenthal Is a Douchebag : The Other McCain
    July 4th, 2013 @ 2:30 pm

    […] quite as spectacular as what happened to Mona Eltahawy on Wednesday. It had something to do with the coup in Egypt, about which my natural instinct was to make sarcastic references about the folly of Obama […]

  43. WyBlog - When in the course of human events...
    July 4th, 2013 @ 5:01 pm

    When in the course of human events……

    Walk like an Egyptian!…