From Gaza to Manfalut

↪ Mounting Challenges Must Make Morsi Regret His Days in Egypt's Opposition - NYTimes.com

It strikes me that I never linked to my post last week on Latitude, written before Morsi made his decree and the Gaza ceasefire was implemented. Obviously the headline seems a little weird now although perhaps the point about being in opposition being somewhat easier holds — I think. The piece is about the overwhelming challenges facing the Morsi administration and the Qandil cabinet. It is relevant to the previous situation in that Morsi miscalculated his political capital last Thursday and over-reached.