The Obama administration's thinking at this stage is as follows. They are working backward from a tentative, but consistent and solidifying, decision to continue aid to the Egyptian military:
-Continue aid to preserve American influence.
-It wasn't a coup, it was a euphemism-to-be-determined.
-It wasn't a coup because the Morsi government wasn't a functioning democracy.
-The Morsis consolidated their power after their democratic election victory so as to exclude liberals. The Morsi government was an undemocratic power grab similar to communist and fascist power consolidations after electoral victories. Did the US not intervene in Allende's Chile? Should we have perhaps intervened in Mugabe's Zimbabwe? In Hitler's Germany?
-Egypt was falling apart, could not have made it to a new presidential election in three years. The military had to act. Mubarak holdovers frustrating Morsi's attempts to make the trains run on time concern us but we're on a roll here so don't harsh our mellow.
-The intent of the law prohibiting American aid to coup governments that overthrow democratic governments is to not frustrate popular will.
-It is not only in the democratic form of government that popular will can be found. Is the PRC government not popularly supported though non-democratic?
-In Egypt does the military not have popular support?
-In addition 22,000,000 people signed petitions opposing the Morsi government.
-For the above reasons the military thing had the support of the Egyptian people and was not a coup.
-The democratic election produced a non-democratic government.
-The election was not therefore a legitimate expression of popular will.
-The election did not express popular will because the Egyptian people were not ready for it.
-The Egyptian people were not ready for democracy, they are too doctrinaire, they are not ready for democracy now. The current military government is as good an expression of popular will as can be at the moment and good enough for the continuance of American aid to the military.
-To the Brotherhood, we regret the massacre and apologize for any inconvenience. To the military, don't do that again. To the Egyptian people, here's a copy of the Federalist Papers, keep in touch.
Thank you.
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-Continue aid to preserve American influence.
-It wasn't a coup, it was a euphemism-to-be-determined.
-It wasn't a coup because the Morsi government wasn't a functioning democracy.
-The Morsis consolidated their power after their democratic election victory so as to exclude liberals. The Morsi government was an undemocratic power grab similar to communist and fascist power consolidations after electoral victories. Did the US not intervene in Allende's Chile? Should we have perhaps intervened in Mugabe's Zimbabwe? In Hitler's Germany?
-Egypt was falling apart, could not have made it to a new presidential election in three years. The military had to act. Mubarak holdovers frustrating Morsi's attempts to make the trains run on time concern us but we're on a roll here so don't harsh our mellow.
-The intent of the law prohibiting American aid to coup governments that overthrow democratic governments is to not frustrate popular will.
-It is not only in the democratic form of government that popular will can be found. Is the PRC government not popularly supported though non-democratic?
-In Egypt does the military not have popular support?
-In addition 22,000,000 people signed petitions opposing the Morsi government.
-For the above reasons the military thing had the support of the Egyptian people and was not a coup.
-The democratic election produced a non-democratic government.
-The election was not therefore a legitimate expression of popular will.
-The election did not express popular will because the Egyptian people were not ready for it.
-The Egyptian people were not ready for democracy, they are too doctrinaire, they are not ready for democracy now. The current military government is as good an expression of popular will as can be at the moment and good enough for the continuance of American aid to the military.
-To the Brotherhood, we regret the massacre and apologize for any inconvenience. To the military, don't do that again. To the Egyptian people, here's a copy of the Federalist Papers, keep in touch.
Thank you.
Did I tell you about my trip to Africa?
