Egypt protests: Pro-Morsi camps in Cairo being cleared

50 dead, not even lunchtime yet.

I would suspect a full blown civil war to happen soon if not then a very active terror campain to last years.

Are there going to be enough virgins?

Very sad. There is no need for such actions.

Sure, there is. Because if the islamist militants are allowed to gin up momentum and take control of the government they'll do far worse to everyone else.

And in their brief moment in the sun with Morsi in charge they managed to persecute the Copts and get away with executing approximately 300 known homosexuals and, of course, the Western media gives them a total pass on this stuff and instead presents them as poor victims of the mean old secular military.

Ever see the one where the Morsi supporters were throwing the kids off the 5 story rooftop?

So you could have that, or you could have those same Morsi fans being chased by the Egyptian Military down the street. Choose.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23700663

State of emergency declared.

150 dead.

curfew coming at 7pm.

Sure, there is. Because if the islamist militants are allowed to gin up momentum and take control of the government they'll do far worse to everyone else.

And in their brief moment in the sun with Morsi in charge they managed to persecute the Copts and get away with executing approximately 300 known homosexuals and, of course, the Western media gives them a total pass on this stuff and instead presents them as poor victims of the mean old secular military.

I don't mean to support the things Morsi supporters or Morsi detractors do; but sending in snipers to put bullets in the heads of people who won't leave the camps isn't the answer either. The military has shown they will not allow Egypt to become an islamist state (that Syria is in danger of becoming).

I just think there was a better way to disperse the crowds other than with gunshots.

And given the examples that have been set in Libya and Syria the military is responding in the correct manner against an adversary that has amply demonstrated their inclinations to wage war.



I disagree. Gunshots are damned effective at clearing crowds!

rubber bullets...plastic bullets.....water cannons. Then again, there are dead cops too, so the Morsi mobs might not respond to non lethal force.

And given the examples that have been set in Libya and Syria the military is responding in the correct manner against an adversary that has amply demonstrated their inclinations to wage war.

I guess I'm just na�ve in thinking that the job of a military is to defend a country, and the job of Police is to defend the rule of law. As such; tear gas, riot police, flashbangs, firehoses, shotguns with beanbags and even claymore style deployed tasers are what you use against civillian crowds. Snipers, not so much.

I recall phycological studies I read; that because Militaries are trained to fight outside enemies, if they are deployed against civillians as law keepers, over time they tend to see the civilians they are charged to protect as 'the enemy' and nothing good comes of it.

I dunno, I'm just a computer geek.



I disagree. Gunshots are damned effective at clearing crowds!

Yea, but going all G-20 on them also is effective, without all the adverse international attention.

While the above posters are right about the nastiness of the MB when they were in power, is this really the best way to deal with them? They already had essentially marginalized themselves, now they could be legitimate martyrs after today.

The Muslim Brotherhood has been at war with the Egyptian Government for decades and this latest setback won't stop them in their quest to turn their country into another Iran.

So to say they're marginalized by this latest setback isn't exactly accurate but to say that Egypt has been in and is reverting to the state of civil war again is.