Whatever the destination of the millions now flooding Egypt’s cities, their verdict concerning President Mohammed Morsi is unambiguous: failed.
Even if he still clings to power for a while, as he remains determined to do, the embattled Islamist’s year in power will be recalled as one of the most spectacular crashes in political history. Aspiring leaders anywhere, but particularly in the politically awakening Arab world, should emerge from the drama on the Nile with our era’s most basic political dictum: Economics first, the rest second.
Morsi got it the other way around.
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