Thursday, August 22, 2013

Egypt's Generals Chronic Diseases

           
What do Egypt's generals want?

The January 2011 revolution challenged that 1954 status quo in many ways.

The revolutionaries did clash with a 21st Century junta: the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Scaf).
After the removal of Mubarak in February 2011, the Scaf had a minimum of three demands it insisted on: a veto in high politics, independence for the army's budget and economic empire, and legal immunity from prosecution on charges stemming from corruption or repression.

What do Egypt's generals fear?
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One way to maintain internal cohesion is to create "demons" - a lesson learned from the "dirty wars" in Algeria in the 1990s and Argentina in the 1970s and 1980s.

The July coup is a backward step for democratic civilian-military relations
Even more worrying are its regional implications.

The message sent by the coup to Libya, Syria, Yemen and beyond is that of militarising politics: only arms guarantee political rights, not the constitution, not democratic institutions and certainly not votes.

In the end, what remains certain is that no democratic transition is complete without targeting abuse, eradicating torture, ending exclusion, and annulling the impunity of security services, with effective and meaningful civilian control of both the armed forces and the security establishment.

Generals's can not see any other way, as they snuggles struggle existential crisis, as they have been built in such way that they could not cope with democracy which is all about transparency... no institution above the constitutions and the military  also controlled by elected government... that is all too fearful paranoid generals did a coup, they have get guns tanks... demonized millions of people as terrorists... locked up demonically elected president and released their old ally dictator... death of Egyptian's revolution!? The  people only can cure the  disease... they did it before, they should do it again!