Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood rejects Cabinet offer

[dipsydoodle]

Source: Associated Press

CAIRO (AP) -- A spokesman for Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood says the group will reject any offer to join an interim government to replace the administration of ousted President Mohammed Morsi.

Newly appointed Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi is to begin forming a Cabinet on Wednesday, and has said he will offer the Brotherhood - which helped propel Morsi to the presidency - posts in a new government.

A Brotherhood spokesman dismissed any talk of joining a military-backed administration, and said talk of national reconciliation is "irrelevant." He spoke on condition of anonymity because of concerns for his security.

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[Sand Wind]

1. said talk of national reconciliation is "irrelevant."...

Look bad

[Igel]

2. Why?

This kind of thing is exactly what the National Salvation Front referred to as full cooperation and evidence they wanted Morsi to succeed. Bail from elections, don't run candidates, don't attend meetings when invited, turn down positions in the government, support anything that stymies Morsi.

And call it, to thunderous applause, "full cooperation."

This continues the same kind of attitude. There was a chance that first year to dial back on the polarization. But what good things Morsi did were treated as cynical ploys and rejected with strong condemnation, and his mistakes magnified and taken to be permanent even if he reversed them. After that the polarization was monotonically increasing. The opposition could do no wrong. Morsi could do no right.

This rupture in civil society has been carefully nursed and nurtured when it served one side. Now it's going to be inconvenient and the other side will be blamed for allowing it to happen.

[Comrade Grumpy]

3. What he said. n/t

[Sand Wind]

4. You are right on this, but they must face reality and not paint

Themself in the corner from the beginning.