re: #1 Destro

The USA has been ignoring the plight of the Copts for geopolitical reasons for years and this is the end result. We backed a guy that kind of kept a lid on things there but was too weak to change the culture and in fact may have played up Egypt’s differences to keep power. Same as Syria it seems. Same as the old Yugoslavia and same as Qaddafi’s Lybia. Seems the dictators did nothing to try and resolve their nation’s problems, just shut everything up till it reached a boiling point.

And if we’d backed someone else we might well have gotten frozen out completely. Dealing with most Middle Eastern nations isn’t about good options and bad options, it’s about bad options and worse options.