Egypt and Beyond: The Need for Patience

Egypt and Beyond: The Need for Patience

by Stephen M. Walt

What's going on in Egypt?  The short answer is: precisely what we should have expected.  What is happening is obviously disturbing, but it is also a completely predictable and probably protracted struggle for power. And unless the "Arab spring" is quite atypical, the political revolutions that began two years ago are going to take years to work out. http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/12/07/egypt_and_beyond_the_need_for_patience