Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood calls for 'day of rage'

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34. Egypt, and much of the middle east and arab world, has little experience with democratic government.

We ultimately agree about the ends that need to be achieved for true democratic government. However, we are both liberal democrats from a country with a long history of such such government. Some of our country's worst and most shameful conduct pales in comparison to what often occurs daily in this region. I'm therefore not confident that a peaceful transition to real first-world democracy will be either swift or painless. I'm certainly not stating that the people in the region are not capable, but a such a sea change in thinking will be difficult.

I also do not necessarily believe that we needed to support Morsi for his full term. If he was setting Egypt up for the unchallenged, theocratic rule by the MB, was it not better to support the military's termination of such designs before they advanced much further? A few aborted attempts at democracy might be the price Egyptians have to pay to fully realize the true democratic aspiration of their revolution.