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And then what ?
The M.B. have quite deliberately engineered today's events in Egypt with the calculated aim of somehow creating a general uprising. It won't happen. However the M.B. now have a set of martyrs for their cause. All terrorist groups have gone in for this sort of thing - Lenin's Bolsheviks, Hitler, Mao Tse-Tung, the I.R.A. .....
The FoxNews article you quote was dated Jan 2013 since when events have moved on quite a bit. For instance the delivery of F16 jets has been suspended.
The Muslim Brotherhood are not an army of cuddly democratic wannabees. They are a bunch of terrorists who have used any means available including violence to further their ends.
Egypt does not have any enemies that might require F16 jets for defense. Nor Abram battle tanks for that matter. Potential enemies are Libya - there have been minor border incidents, Sudan ( Nile water issues). For the last 25 years Egypt has had fairly close military cooperation with Israel. Fairly obviously that went into the cold freeze with Morsi.
The USA is more concerned with the geopolitics of the region as a whole. The one thing it does not want is either Russia shoe horning itself back into Egypt or even worse China. As it is China has more or less taken over the Sudan.
The supply of available small arms in the world is endless.
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Please read this:
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/01/22/gift-us-f-16-fighter-jets-en-route-to-egypt-amid-criticism/
The small arms supplies which didn't make it into the media are being used to kill protesters. To kid yourself otherwise is rather ostrich like!
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The largest exporter of arms in the world is Russia. No.2 is China.
It is sometimes very difficult for people who have always lived in western Europe to get their heads around some very basic facts about the Islamic world in general and the Middle East in particular. The sad events in Egypt today have nothing to do with the USA and are not the result of a massacre of the innocents.
Here is a try:
Islam does not have peace as its central tenet. The central tenet is that of submission to Allah, from that submission there will be peace. Have a look at the flag of Saudi Arabia - crossed swords. They are there for a reason.
Islam has no concept of separation of religion and state as in most western democracies ( except England! ). When push comes to shove religious leaders and politicians will call the shots ( quite often literally ).
Islam is divided into two groups very, very roughly corresponding to Catholics and Protestants in the C16. One group, the Sunni, are more conservative and hold sway in Saudi, the Gulf states, North Africa. Sunni are a majority in Syria and Turkey. The more liberal tendency are the Shi'ite who hold sway in Iran, Syria and Iraq.
Islam has no understanding of democracy e.g. that the party in power has any obligations to the "outs" and minorities. The whole idea of winning is to use power to eliminate opposition. Here is what Pres. Erdogan of Turkey said to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia:
"Democracy is a bus ride, once I get to my stop, I’m getting off."
The Muslim Brotherhood has existed in Egypt for over a century. It was proscribed by the British and every regime since then. Sometimes it has been tolerated, often not.
Since the M.B. was allowed to go legit. and won the presidential elections it has embarked on a policy of confrontation with Coptic Christians ( 20% of the population ) and a reversal of ordinary modern freedoms - religion, a cold beer, education ( other than religious schools ), women's rights and so on. On top of that the economy has been in free fall.
Asked to compromise and behave in a more democratic and economically literate way Pres. Morsi flatly refused. The inevitable result was that the stronger side of Egypt facing the abyss rose up and forced him out with the help of the army.
The situation now is that the M.B. who represent the poor in Cairo and other cities, the peasants and small farmers of the delta and believe in the imposition of conservative Islam ( and not democracy ) are pitched against the better educated, business and the landowners.
There is very little common ground.
Quite how the country goes forward from here is anybody's guess.
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AL Jazeera - Muslim Brotherhood say 300 dead, Health agency 40 killed.
Let's see how keen now the USA are to get involved! You supply bullets but you don't know who is going to be shot with them.
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Horrendous situation ....l will keep an eye on the news....x
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The world has gone mad
:-(
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It's always the innocent who suffer from the Hot-Heads actions.
The situation is unclear - the protesters say more than a 100 people have been killed, the Army say about 20 including at least 2 of the Security Forces.
(source BBC website updated at 0956)
Either way, even one is regretable.
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The whole thing has spiralled out of control it seems, makes all the silly arguments going on, pathetic doesn't it, so sad :-(
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The camp sit in has escalated into a massacre of the protestors this morning. Spare a thought for the children caught up in this horror.
The demonstrators should no chance of avoiding being shot.
Dreadful.
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