so, i'm still trying to unravel this, and it's constantly shifting.

if the coup was backed by the ksa, and there's this struggle going on between the ksa and qatar, this suggests the whitehouse taking the side of qatar in preparation for....

...for what. fuck. LEAVE EGYPT ALONE.

we'll have to see how syria lines up. the thing is that playing them off against each other isn't incoherent.....

there's always the left-field possibility that the policy is actually transparent. but, the idea of the united states coercing a foreign power into democracy is sort of hard to take at face value.

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/10/10/3_months_after_morsi_coup_hundreds