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Saturday, July 13, 2013

Viewpoint: What Happened In Egypt Was Not Democratic


The coup—and it was a coup—may well have extinguished Egypt's experiment in democracy



A poster of ousted President Mohammed Morsi hangs on the barb wire at the Republican Guard building in Nasr City, Cairo, on July 9, 2013.
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A poster of ousted President Mohammed Morsi hangs on the barb wire at the Republican Guard building in Nasr City, Cairo, on July 9, 2013.

The question is actually fairly easy to answer, by way of an analogy close to home. President Obama’s push for universal health care proved so unpopular among Republican lawmakers that administration officials like former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel reportedly “begged” the president to drop the issue and move on. Nonetheless, in spite of opposition from the GOP as well as his own party, Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law in 2010. At no point during or after the highly contentious process did any reasonable person argue that the military should remove the president from the office to which the American people elected him.



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