Michael Totten, a clear thinker and very well traveled in the Middle East, interviews Eric Trager, a scholar at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Per Totten,
He's a real expert on Egypt and has been more consistently right than just about anyone. He called out the Muslim Brotherhood as an inherently authoritarian organization while scores of other supposed "experts" falsely pimped it as moderate. And contrary to claims from the opposing camp, that the army "restored" democracy with its coup, he saw the recent bloody unpleasantness coming well in advance.
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