by Patrick Appel
#Egypt “We are looking at a spreading armed campaign against the government” @boumilo tells @USATODAY pic.twitter.com/bDzkPUAkZT
— Crisis Group (@CrisisGroup) March 20, 2014
Violence mars anniversary of Egypt's constitutional referendum http://t.co/4vlxcnRex4
— Al Jazeera America (@ajam) March 20, 2014
Eric Trager covers the Muslim Brotherhood’s “campaign of lower-profile violence against various governmental and civilian targets, aiming to stir chaos and thereby weaken the post-Morsi regime”:
This low-profile violence will likely to continue indefinitely and worsen, because young Muslim Brothers are unlikely to find other, more formal, avenues for advancing their ideology anytime soon. Egypt’s military-backed government fears that permitting the Brotherhood to participate politically will enable it to return to power and seek vengeance, and by the same token Muslim Brothers are unwilling to participate in the current transition and thereby accept Morsi’s ouster. The most likely outcome, at least in the short-run, is thus a desperately unpleasant stalemate: The Brotherhood cannot beat the post-Morsi regime through its current strategy, nor can the regime achieve anything approximating stability.
The Dish 