I wonder what Obumble says to that? Seems nobody likes your guy.
The enthusiastic response to the Egyptian military's ouster of President Mohamed Morsi underscored the extent to which the Islamist leader had failed to win allies abroad, much as he had at home, alienating Egypt's traditional friends and foes alike with an often erratic foreign policy. The acclamations put Sunni powers on a par with the leader they are trying to topple, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who gloated at the Brotherhood's failures in an interview Wednesday.
"The Muslim Brotherhood's experiment fell quickly because it is wrong, and what is built on a wrong principle will definitely fall," said Assad, who has cast his country's civil war as a battle between secularists and Islamists.
I am afraid Pencilneck is on to something there.
Only in Tunisia, the birthplace of the Arab Spring uprisings two years ago, did the elected, Brotherhood-affiliated government condemn Morsi's ouster, calling it a "flagrant coup." Non-Arab Turkey, whose Islamist government has a history of strained relations with the country's own military, also warned about the implications for the future of democracy in Egypt.
Much of the relief elsewhere was rooted in anxieties about the challenge posed by local Brotherhood affiliates. But Morsi had won few friends with a foreign policy that zigzagged from an attempt to mend Egypt's historically poisonous relationship with Shiite Iran to an endorsement of jihad against Shiite "infidels" in Syria.
Maybe that's why O-boo-boo felt a rapport with Morsi - he was erratic?
That policy switch, announced last month, may have sealed his fate by sending signals to the Western-backed military that he was becoming more radical in ways that could entangle Egypt in the region's brewing sectarian conflict, said a Bahrain-based analyst with the International Institute for Strategic Studies. "It was an incredibly foolish mistake by Morsi," he said. "He supports a rapprochement with Iran, then veers 180 degrees in the other direction and goes for jihad in Syria."
Israel's government remained conspicuously quiet about Egypt on Thursday, with analysts saying Israel's chief concern was that its neighbor does not become dangerously destabilized. Israel will also want to be sure that any leader who replaces Morsi will uphold the two countries' peace treaty, as Morsi had done.
The Palestinian militant group Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip and faces increasing isolation in the region, insisted in a statement that Morsi's downfall would have little impact in the enclave.
That's interesting.