re: #13 ralphieboy

One can cite parallels with Iran, but the key difference is that Egypt has little elverage outside threatening to close the SUez canal or reneging on its treaties with Israel.

Either option will cost them billions in foreign aid and foreign tourism, which they cannot afford. That makes them a lot more amenable to a moderate solution.

Because, you know, pyramids and mummies and hieroglyphics are cool.

(I’d love to see the pyramids. There’s nothing in Iran I want to see so badly I’d be willing to travel there.)