When massive street protests propelled President Hosni Mubarak out of office 18 months ago, Egyptians proudly called the event a revolution. Now that revolution is looking more and more like a palace coup, with the Mubarak ouster cleverly camouflaged in the language of democracy by a military working to prevent the total collapse of the old order. By jettisoning a leader who had stayed past his sell-by date, the generals suddenly sympathetic to the protesters bought time to re-engineer their hold on power even as the military played its Islamist and secular challengers against each other....
The Military Shows Egypt Who's Boss
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