Its a cesspit of a situation, no question. The scenes of the protesters camps burning, the death toll, and military curfew are all things out of some nightmare. To think they went through all that trouble to oust one dictator, Mubarak, only to end up with an even more oppressive and bloody repression - from the very people, the army, who were regarded as heroes during the protests first against Mubarak, and then against Morsi.
Interesting the USAs response too. Dithering over to call it for what it was, a military coup, because to call it such would automatically end their billion dollars worth of "aid" to the Egyptian Army. This kind of response from the home of the brave and the land of the free.
So what happens now? Do you allow the MB to field candidates for the next election? What happens if they are elected again? The Army appear to be planning not to allow the MB to run, but that is not any kind of democracy.No question that Morsi brought a lot of this on himself and the Brotherhood, but, regardless of how we might feel about the excesses of the MB, should we really be sanguine about seeing democracy stifled in this manner?
I watched a well-educated young egyptian man arguing passionately that he was for those in Egypt that were anti-Army AND Anti-Morsi - they want a secular democracy, free of military control, and free of theocractic considerations - but I fear they will not see that any time soon.