EGYPT IN CRISES ....Benghazi Casualties as “Bumps in the Road”....Paul Weston on the Woolwich Killing, Islam and the State of Modern Britain .....

EGYPT IN CRISES  

In Egypt, Army Threatens Coup while U.S. Policy has backed the Regime

By Barry Rubin

The news that the army has given a 48 hour ultimatum that unless stability returns it will step in has proven the headline of this article correct. Is the one-year-old experiment in Egyptian democracy going to end in the way that could have happened much easier in February 2011–that is a continuity of the regime without Mubarak’?

I should be sufficiently cautious to say that it is possible if everyone played nice they will stop BUT why should the opposition leave when they want the army to stage a coup? Surely the generals know that. (Read more…)

Benghazi Casualties as “Bumps in the Road”  

The poem was written by a MARINE CORPS Officer (ANON). The Glorious Leader called these dead SEALs “bumps in the road.”
THE BATTLING BOYS OF BENGAZI

We’re the battling boys of Bengazi
No fame, no glory, no paparazzi.
Just a fiery death in a blazing hell
Defending our country we loved so well. (Read more…)

Paul Weston on the Woolwich Killing, Islam and the State of Modern Britain  

By the Millions, Egyptians Seek Morsi’s Ouster  

Tara Todras-Whitehill for The New York Times

Egyptian demonstrators, waving a flag with the face and name of an activist who was killed in February, in Cairo on Sunday. More Photos »

CAIRO — Millions of Egyptians streamed into the streets of cities across the country on Sunday to demand the ouster of their first elected head of state, President Mohamed Morsi, in an outpouring of anger at the political dominance of his Islamist backers in the Muslim Brotherhood.

The scale of the demonstrations, coming just one year after crowds in Tahrir Square cheered Mr. Morsi’s inauguration, appeared to exceed even the massive street protests in the heady final days of the uprising that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak in 2011. At a moment when Mr. Morsi is still struggling to control the bureaucracy and just beginning to build public support for painful economic reforms, the protests have raised new hurdles to his ability to lead the country as well as new questions about Egypt’s path to stability.
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Facing a Nuclear Iran: Israel’s Remaining Options  

By Rene Beres, INN

Nuclear strategy is a “game” that sane and rational decision-makers must play.

In the best of all possible worlds, Iran could still be kept distant from nuclear weapons. In the real world, however, any such operational success is increasingly unlikely. More precisely, the remaining odds of Israel being able to undertake a cost-effective preemption against Iran, an act of “anticipatory self-defense” in the formal language of international law, are incontestably very low.
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Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel