I've read a lot of news stories and blog posts from a wide variety of sources and the theme that keeps getting repeated is that somehow the Muslim Brotherhood deserved this crackdown. I couldn't agrree more. Except for one, small detail; in the process of cracking down on the Brothers, hundreds of women and children were killed or wounded. There is little doubt that some Muslim Brotherhood members and supporters fired at police, threw rocks and Molotov cocktails, burned Christian churches, and attacked poilice stations in several cities. The Health Ministry claims 43 police are among the dead. I'll leave it to your judgment in ascertaining how truthful that number might be. But the point is simple; the government stopped negotiating a potential peaceful solution with the Brothers for no apparent reason. Since the Brotherhood had imported women and children to act as human shields, the responsibility to do everything possible to avoid a bloody massacre like the one that occurred...(Read Full Post)