Egypt - back to square one!

Egypt's powerful army has ousted the country's first democratically elected President Mohammed Morsi and suspended the constitution after its 48 hr deadline for him to meet the people's demand and accept a power sharing formula.

Increasingly seen to be pandering his political outfit, the Muslim Brotherhood, he seemed to be putting the clock back in so far as traditions, customs and accommodation of opponents of the outfit's scheme of things. I'm no political commentator and hence, I consider myself ill equipped to venture into any sort of analysis about the factors that have brought Egypt to her present impasse.

But as a layman, I can easily see as to what had gone wrong and my opinion has been formed over a period of time spent on watching the television news grabs of various channels and reading a cross scetion of the print media. From those inputs, the following are discernible:-

              (a) Morsi, never got around to providing good governance to the people of Egypt.
              (b) He was unsure of his standing in that neither he nor his political outfit, the Muslim Brotherhood,
                   had won a clear mandate in the last elections.
              (c) Consequently, he was in a process of consolidating his own position and that of his party's by
                   some means or the other.
              (d) In doing so, he seemed to have missed out on the aspirations of the people - to provide a clean
                   and effective government that would systematically dismantle the system that was in place
                   over years of military dictatorship.

The simple fact that he and his supporters seem to have forgotten is that, if they'd provided good governance and cleansed up the detestable system that they'd inherited, they could have easily consolidated their position and earned a lasting place in their people's hearts. And could have ruled for years, perhaps, at the behest of the very same people who're happy at their exit now.

Morsi and his supporters seemed to increasingly follow the footsteps of Mubarak and his cronies. Paradoxical stuff!


Tailpiece.

Whither Egypt? Has the Arab spring that had brought the Tahrir Square to the living rooms of millions of houses around the globe, a couple of years back, gone in vain? Will the lives lost on that Square ever pardon Morsi and his cronies for having let go a historical opportunity to bring back the country to peace and sanity?