Egypt's Military Launches Silent Coup On Brotherhood

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Mideast: The drama in Greece diverted atten-tion from the presidential election in Egypt, where the Muslim Brotherhood claimed victory, the military seized greater power and the Arab Spring continued to unravel.

President Obama was happy to claim credit for the changes that swept the Mideast during the so-called Arab Spring, but he is now a virtual no-show as the political ugliness emerges.

The victory of the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt virtually guarantees that its government will be officially hostile to the U.S.

It will also almost certainly abrogate the 1979 peace deal between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin that ended the state of war that had existed between their two countries for much of the postwar period to then.

But don't worry.

No sooner had Egyptians finished voting than the ruling Supreme Council of Armed Forces on Sunday granted itself what the BBC called "sweeping powers" over Egypt's government and people — in essence, a coup.

That follows by days the army's decision to dissolve parliament, which had been taken over by — you guessed it — the Muslim Brotherhood. See a pattern?

Wasn't it just 16 months ago that then-President Hosni Mubarak was kicked from office, with a nod of approval from Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton? Now that things aren't going so well, we're not hearing much from either of our leaders.

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There's lots of change in the Middle East, but very little real hope — especially if you're a member of a minority sect in a country that was just taken over by Islamic fundamentalists.

Sure, Mubarak wasn't the nicest man, but he was a friend of the U.S. Neither Obama nor Clinton seemed at all concerned that those who replaced Mubarak might be worse — far worse. But that's the case.

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Get the feeling the MSM is ignoring this story? Another Obama failure that they want to ignore.