A coup is an illegal takeover of a government (usually by the military).
The Egyptian military, a subsidiary of the USA military, overthrew a democratically elected president.
The USA is NOT calling this a coup, because the military installed a civilian, the chief of the Egyptian Supreme Court, as the new president.
Lessons:
One: USA soldiers die to bring democracy to the middle east. In the middle east, you may have free elections, as long as you vote in the candidate USA powers-that-be wants.
Two: If the USA military overthrows the USA government, as long as the USA military installs Supreme Court Chief Justice John "just following orders" Roberts as president, it is not a coup.
What goes around comes around.
Update, Pat Buchanan:
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The Egyptian military, a subsidiary of the USA military, overthrew a democratically elected president.
The USA is NOT calling this a coup, because the military installed a civilian, the chief of the Egyptian Supreme Court, as the new president.
Lessons:
One: USA soldiers die to bring democracy to the middle east. In the middle east, you may have free elections, as long as you vote in the candidate USA powers-that-be wants.
Two: If the USA military overthrows the USA government, as long as the USA military installs Supreme Court Chief Justice John "just following orders" Roberts as president, it is not a coup.
What goes around comes around.
Update, Pat Buchanan:
They played by America’s rules. Now, with America’s blessing, they are being locked up by America’s friends in Egypt’s armed forces.
Nor is this the first perceived betrayal. When Hamas won the free elections demanded by George W. Bush, America refused to recognize their legitimacy and plotted the violent overthrow of Hamas in Gaza.
When Islamists swept the first round of Algerian elections in 1991, the regime, with the blessing of Bush 1, canceled the second round, leading to a guerrilla war that cost 100,000 to 200,000 dead.
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