Morsi is addressing a serious problem

[abomokhtar]

Morsi is addressing a serious problem:

Historian Walter Russell Mead points out that for revolutionary governments this is common dilemma with no easy solutions: What do you do about leftovers from the old regime?

The courts were closely tied to Hosni Mubarak’s dictatorship and “it’s worth noting that [Morsi's] plans to bypass Egypt’s judicial system are grounded in a reality: Egypt’s judges were handpicked by the thoroughly corrupt Mubarak regime and did the old dictator’s bidding without protest for many years. Neither the judges as a group nor the judiciary as an institution are entitled to any particular respect.”


Desperate times call for desperate measures:

Steve Clemons of The Atlantic asks if Morsi is more like Abraham Lincoln, who seized special “war powers” during the Civil War, or like three-decade Singaporean leader Lee Kuan Yew, who is seen as the poster boy of benevolent authoritarian development. Either take is sympathetic, and Clemons says that Morsi “needs to continue to challenge other weak or rotten sectors of society and should at the same time welcome the institutional battles that will ultimately limit his power

[Mr.Optimistic]

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