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Originally Posted by classicman
What is interesting is that the US govt is not calling it a coup when thats absolutely what it is. Why you might as?
So that we can continue to give them shit-tons of aid money.
No no, I'm serious. Really.
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Purely from the definition, this was actually not a clear cut coup. Coup implies military takeover and the Egyptian military has 'said' that it plans on giving the government reigns back to a democratically elected leader. Also, aid money to Egypt is about buying influence in the region. With everything that has been going on in the Middle East lately and the uncertainty of Egypt's future, I don't think Obama wants to lose influence with the most powerful institution in Egypt.
Its just semantics at this point though. I'm not very optimistic since the Islamists are calling for civil war...