Egypt's military signals impatience with Islamist president

[BlueStateSaint]

There's more to the title; I had to cut it to make some sense.  This could get 'interesting,' though.

Egypt's military signals impatience with Islamist president and his Muslim Brotherhood group



CAIRO –  Egypt's powerful military is showing signs of growing impatience with the country's Islamist leaders, indirectly criticizing their policies and issuing thinly veiled threats that it might seize power again.

The tension is raising the specter of another military intervention much like the one in 2011, when generals replaced longtime authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak after they sided with anti-regime protesters in their 18-day popular uprising.

The strains come at a time when many Egyptians are despairing of an imminent end to the crippling political impasse between President Mohammed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood group on one side, and the mostly secular and liberal opposition on the other.

The tug of war between the two camps is being waged against a grim backdrop of spreading unrest, rising crime and a worsening economy.

"In essence, the military will not allow national stability or its own institutional privileges to come under threat from a breakdown in Egypt's social fabric or a broad-based civil strife," said Michael W. Hanna, an Egypt expert from the New York-based Century Foundation.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/02/20/egypt-military-signals-impatience-with-islamist-president-and-his-muslim/#ixzz2LUZd1gIC

I wonder what the Obamessiah would say to this.  The thing is, the military would likely have a fair amount of popular support--and then there's the Israelis, who just might lend 'technical assistance' to the Egyptian Army.