Protest at Egypt president's palace turns violent

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10. "October" comes a bit late this time around?

in hindsight, it is an absolutely beautiful thing how that Muslim Brotherhood organization swept the governments in Tunisia, Egypt, and to a lesser extent Libya. In a remarkably short period of time, they have so utterly discredited themselves as a movement that nobody will ever take their rhetoric seriously again. The Ikhwan has spent 80 years trying to build itself up for this moment, and their work is largely undone in less than a year. The situation is not much better in Jordan; they hedge their propaganda between being the only opposition to the hashemite dictator, but then act as their first line of defense. The massive Qatari investment in this project will bellyflop completely--which was intended as a hedge against Saudi influence to promote themselves to the US gov't as a more suitable client. And now the Ikhwan wants to take over Syria? Only if al-Qa'idah doesn't win the most Western backing there first.