Friday, July 05, 2013

Egyptian Army: Pronunciamiento / Golpe de Estado


Another strange development in a weird world -- a popularly-backed military-managed coup d'état in Egypt (total population = 85 million) just "removed" from power Mohamed Morsi, who had been elected president of Egypt in June 2012 with about 51-52% of the popular vote. A military tribunal dissolved the Egyptian constitution and created "provisional" leadership, giving vague ideas about evolving toward a new status quo with new elections, etc.

Does democracy work? How would Americans like such a turn of events in the USA? How would anybody with any practical experience with democracy?

Today's Rune: Fertility.     

1 comment:

Charles Gramlich said...

My mind boggles. I hardly know what to think.