tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post299469351481419198..comments2024-03-20T01:06:12.181-04:00Comments on MEI Editor's Blog: Tiananmen Comes to CairoUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post-10558696056363713182013-08-14T21:56:31.553-04:002013-08-14T21:56:31.553-04:00Did anyone think this was going to end any other w...Did anyone think this was going to end any other way?<br /><br />The Egyptian "secularists" who had no chance of winning a free and fair election jumped on the military bandwagon. They've got a reinvigorated State Security and today's massacre on their hands.<br /><br />Protestations of "conscience" or "shock" at today's events demonstrate either (a) unmitigated hypocrisy, (b) inadvertent acknowledgement of their inability to think clearly, or (c) some combination of both.T. Rice, Chicagonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post-91537215848735159732013-08-14T17:38:03.934-04:002013-08-14T17:38:03.934-04:00Mohamed Barradei showed he has a conscience, but t...Mohamed Barradei showed he has a conscience, but the only Egyptian "leader" that I can think of who has come out of this as a winner is Aiman Al-Zawahiri. Not easy for any of the Muslim Brothers to counter his argument that democracy has no place for them. David Macknoreply@blogger.com