One Man, One Vote, One Year
Amid
the fast-moving political drama in Egypt, we should think about larger
messages the events there are sending, to those outside as well as
inside Egypt, that may prove more important than who is in the
presidential palace in Cairo next month or even next year. Egyptian
dissatisfaction with Mohamed Morsi was
grounded primarily in the dismal state of the Egyptian economy [4].
But national leaders in many other countries have presided over
economic failure without getting overthrown by military coups. Morsi was
freely and fairly elected, just as much as many of those other leaders
were. In this respect, the action the Egyptian military took this week
is quite different from its ouster two years ago of Hosni Mubarak, whose
entrenched position in power was the result of a rigged system in which
no opposition leader ever had a fair chance to displace him.
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