Remember this headline, in the state-owned newspaper of a supposedly secular, US-friendly regime run by a military that receives $1.3bn in US aid per year. Via:
“Egypt rejects the exhortations of the American Satan” says headline in state newspaper Al-Akhbar (egy, not iranian) pic.twitter.com/oRRcn88jZ8
— Samer Al-Atrush (@SameralAtrush) August 8, 2013
And while we’re at it:
Akhbar reports “judicial sources” saying evidence US embassy participated in killing protesters in Jan 25
— Samer Al-Atrush (@SameralAtrush) August 8, 2013
So now they’re trying the whole "distract from our looming return to dictatorship by fomenting animosity abroad" tactic, which should have been expected.
After Egypt potentially goes through the same military rule garbage all over again, hopefully the next president will at least try to purge the military and bring them in line. People give Erdogan crap over purging the military leadership in Turkey (and it is true that he’s gotten thuggish and Putinesque in recent), but it ultimately had to be done if civilian governments in Turkey didn’t want to have to constantly look over their shoulders to make sure that the military didn’t topple them in a coup.