another way of looking at it

What we all thought until recently was essentially: “The Brotherhood needs to move slowly, or the military may pull a coup d’état.”

But there’s no one left to pull a coup now. Omar Suleiman is dead. Ahmed Shafik is hiding in Dubai. Tantawi and Anan are now headed off into the sunset, along with many of their colleagues.

There is also no Parliament. So, what is now to stop Morsi from moving full steam ahead? As one of my former students put it on Facebook (and she wasn’t happy about it) we’re headed very quickly towards the Islamic Republic of Egypt.

I underestimated Morsi. He seemed to me like a bit of a bumbler in recent weeks.