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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You have essentially two (really three) choices: Morsi, Sisi, or civil war. The liberals decided to back Sisi in an alliance of convenience, the same as they backed Mubarak.

Which one would be least bad for US interests? Difficulty level: factoring into account that backing the overthrow of a fairly and democratically elected government has a non-zero chance of being a point of resentment in future decades (so a hostile but not terrible government like say Mossadegh or Morsi might be tolerated because installing a client to replace them might not work over a 10-15 year timeframe.) 
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But if you think Morsi was going to create Iran v2.0 or actually invade Israel instead of whining about Israel in international fora, then supporting the coup could at least be arguable. [/b][/quote]

I think Iran 2.0 was precisely what Egyptian liberals were scared of, and why so many Egyptians supported the coup.  The Brotherhood made a lot of changes in Egypt very quickly and people were scared.  They weren't going to do anything with regards to Israel, but who knows if a full-blown theocracy had taken root what would have happened.

-OP[/quote]

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