Where do you imagine this is? Syria? Sinai, perhaps?
No. Latin America in the 1980s. Guatemala, Argentina, El Salvador. None of what is happening is new. Not the brutality of the army against indigenous tribes, not the creation of armed groups to fight them, and to fight each other, not the indiscriminate devastation among the innocent civilians…
When there are, for example, 10 steps in a pattern for destroying a country, and you see steps 1 through 5 already being taken, it is not difficult to predict what the next 5 steps will be; particularly when the pattern has been repeated elsewhere so many times.
In Egypt, many people imagine it has never happened before, and this makes it much easier to happen.
