{"id":38986,"date":"2013-07-10T21:06:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T21:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/la_times_ty_mccormick-a_backlash_builds_in_egypt\/"},"modified":"2013-07-10T21:06:34","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T21:06:34","slug":"la_times_ty_mccormick-a_backlash_builds_in_egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38986","title":{"rendered":"(LA Times) Ty McCormick&#8211;A backlash builds in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This time, the military&#8217;s actions could be disastrous. Egypt&#8217;s armed forces have not only brought the 2011 uprising to an ignominious end but invited a vengeful extremist backlash in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Those who celebrate Morsi&#8217;s ouster seem to think the Muslim Brotherhood \u201d\u201d and the millions of Egyptians who are sympathetic to its cause \u201d\u201d will suddenly and magically disappear.<\/p>\n<p>This is indeed a fantasy. Even if Egypt&#8217;s fractious liberals had anything approaching a coherent plan for governing Egypt, they would not be able to defuse the ticking time bomb that is Egypt&#8217;s sizable minority of now-disenfranchised radical-leaning Islamists.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-mccormick-egypt-islamist-elbaradei-20130710,0,3336268.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time, the military&#8217;s actions could be disastrous. Egypt&#8217;s armed forces have not only brought the 2011 uprising to an ignominious end but invited a vengeful extremist backlash in the process. Those who celebrate Morsi&#8217;s ouster seem to think the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38986\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,560,133,203,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-egypt","category-history","category-middle-east","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}