1. Why was the flawed electoral system that allowed the Muslim Brotherhood to gain power on 10% of the vote, allowed in the first place? Even the contentious First Past the Post system in the UK has a higher success rate that is more proportionate of the electorate's views.
2. Accepting that this form of democracy was agreed upon, why were the Muslim Brotherhood not supported by the International Community in leading a complex and turbulent nation? Surely a multilateral coalition would be able to advise and guide the Muslim Brotherhood, who apparently have lots of nice ideas but very little knowledge in implementation (except economical ones).
3. How can Blair possibly support a coup d'état? Well, Blair does support Saudi Arabia and Israel and wars with no grounding whatsoever. And he makes a killing from it. So Tony Blair can do what he likes, really.
4. How can a coup d'état possibly bring peace when the Muslim Brotherhood are the officially elected party? Surely the only new option is further elections. Though perhaps a different voting system may be able to swing the election in the direction the Army want.
5. What's going to happen to Morsi, who is now in Prison for doing, essentially nothing? Being in Prison for doing nothing sounds like a nice Thatcherite policy.
6. What direction does Egypt really want to go in? There are large divisions between the MB and their opposition. But there are risks that islamic extremists can seize this opportunity to exploit the electorate to try and demonstrate that the premise of their revolution- democracy, is not going to work.
7. What happens next? The International Community will care about this, even if they're going to have to leave it up to the Army to sort it out.
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