The Russians and Chinese must be grinning at the political harakiri of the west, as the grisly sight of dead Egyptians begin to elicit comparison with Syria. After all, the al-Sisi led mauling of Brotherhood opposition is no different than the Assad led mauling of the various al-Qeda stripes in Syria. While western call for calm in Egypt has remained muted, the quest for a post Assad Damascus must be causing some heart burn in western capitals.
The Syrian government declared a broad swath of the citizens terrorists in the wake of their uprising against the decades old Assad regime in 2011, and the west has opted to side with the insurgents, because many western policy makers assume that getting rid of Assad will be a blow to the Iranian mullahs. But now that the insurgents in Egypt are conservative Islamists, whom the west does not much care for, and since the Egyptian military led government continues to hold up support for the peace treaty with Israel, no one in the west is asking al-Sisi and his chosen band of coupists to ceed power and reinstate a popularly elected government.
Democracy is messy, it is in the west, as it has been everywhere else, but many who believe it is the right system of government must also be willing to commit to it, even when the going gets tough as it was under Mursi in Egypt and Hamas in Gaza. If Democracy is only good when the regime the west favors is in power, then the hypocrisy of the west can only be laid bare...
The Syrian government declared a broad swath of the citizens terrorists in the wake of their uprising against the decades old Assad regime in 2011, and the west has opted to side with the insurgents, because many western policy makers assume that getting rid of Assad will be a blow to the Iranian mullahs. But now that the insurgents in Egypt are conservative Islamists, whom the west does not much care for, and since the Egyptian military led government continues to hold up support for the peace treaty with Israel, no one in the west is asking al-Sisi and his chosen band of coupists to ceed power and reinstate a popularly elected government.
Democracy is messy, it is in the west, as it has been everywhere else, but many who believe it is the right system of government must also be willing to commit to it, even when the going gets tough as it was under Mursi in Egypt and Hamas in Gaza. If Democracy is only good when the regime the west favors is in power, then the hypocrisy of the west can only be laid bare...
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