Egypt's sword-rattling would be unsettling if one didn't know that the Brotherhood, or Al-Ikhwan, would perhaps be attacked by the Egyptian Army rather than Israel---the Egyptian Army doesn't want to be chopped up by advanced Israeli weaponry.
As an Arabist, I love Egypt where I've lived and loved for a long time. It's sad to see the country run by a group of dunces, but then again, as an American, who am I to talk. We have a bigger set of morons, including a Moron-in-Chief who thinks he is gifted with a mandate. From 95% of a plantation and over 70% of the Brown Caucus, as they used to call it in California.
"Much have I seen and known; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, ...the fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being govern'd, as the sea is, by the moon" [Henry IV, I.ii.31-33] HISTORY NEVER REPEATS ITSELF, BUT IT OFTEN RHYMES "There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America." Otto von Bismarck
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