From the beginning the change of the regime was clearly too easy for me to believe. I saw the Egyptians celebrate their military during that uprising treating it as if it is for the people not the government. Watching that I remembered how I wondered when Saddam's military was bombing and attacking my city in Iraq in the uprising of 1991 why some people were claiming that the attacking solders were brought from far. So, apparently it was also part of a similar wishful thinking that the military in a dictatorship is with the people not the government or is easily ready for a spontaneous change from that to be on the side of justice and democracy. I don't expect to see one dictatorship on earth that is not supported by its military or even anyone who would be crazy enough to try to impose a dictatorship without arranging things with the military of the country first. But I thought, who knows may be the situation is different there. Seeing people go to the elections and voting there, that probability appeared to be strengthened despite the fact that inside I was far from being convinced a real change happened . However, it did not take long to see the military take back direct control. I was correct and so were probably so many other people there who , being like me from that part of the world, couldn't believe a real change happened. So many of those people probably did not go to vote whether because of fear or seeing what was going on as a joke and as a result a potentially very different voting results did not materialize while many in the west kept complaining that "islamists" won the election.
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