Tariq Ramadan from the University of Oxford analyses the situation in Egypt in this article. He calls the coup a media-military operation of the highest order. Among other things he says
1) the army did not return to politics because it never left in the first place
2) the decision to overthrow Mohamed Mursi was made long before June 30th
3) blackouts, shortage of gasoline and natural gas came to an abrupt end after the fall of the President
4) Abdul Fatal al-Sisi maintained close connections to Israel even while Mursi refused contact with them
5) both Muslim Brotherhood and the President were surprisingly simple-minded and suffered from lack of experience; they could not believe the U.S. would accept such a thing as a coup d´état in Egypt
6) the USA and the EU have no quarrel with the political Islam and the salafi literalists of the Gulf states and their denial of democracy
7) the silence of the Western governments tells us all we need to know: there was no Arab spring.
http://www.tariqramadan.com/spip.php?article12927&lang=fr
It is all about keeping up appearances. And we people are so naive.
These items reminds me the way Turkish army would plan the things in advance.
I am sure both-most of the armies in the Middle East work in a similar mind: Contribute the chaos to worsen the situation then stage a coup and say ´see democracy is not working; we had to intervene´.
In the end, all coups have fascist nature and they dont help anything as far as democracy is concerned. They only postpone the democracy and make the country waste years.
