In Egypt, an Arab Spring began on Cairo's Tahrir Square and saw the election and then the deposing of a Muslim Brotherhood government has just come full circle. This week, Egypt's Army-backed government formally designated the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization and stepped up its brutal crackdown.
We shed no tears for the Brotherhood. Mohammed Morsi may have been democratically elected, but his Brotherhood-backed regime could hardly have been mistaken for a democracy. Political opponents were suppressed; the economy collapsed; and the ancient Coptic Christian community was subjected to an ongoing campaign of murder and repression.
And for all the talk about Muslim Brotherhood "pragmatists" coming to the fore, the fact remains that these people had their chance in Egypt and blew it — big-time.
The question is where to go from here. At the moment, things seem to be back to the days of Hosni Mubarak, when enemies were suppressed — along with democrats. He, too, had real enemies, and used them as an excuse to rule under a "state of emergency" for most of his time in office. In the long run, that paved the way for the chaos we now see.
One thing we do know: Ordinary Egyptians will not be served by anarchy and civil war. Of all the bad choices, the only one with any chance for a better future is one where the army succeeds in restoring basic law and order and denying the Islamists control of the Arab world's most populous nation.
Maybe then, Egyptians might have a government confident enough to avoid the mistakes of both its predecessors by opening to legitimate dissent. But surely not until then.
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