TEMPLATE ANALYSIS

If you looked at the scenes in Tahrer Square tonight, it would appear a great victory has been achieved in the Arab World’s most popular country.
Perhaps, a victory on par with that other achievement that Egypt’s armed forces claim as theirs – victory in the Yom Kippur War of 1973.
Sadly, that much heralded triumph is a big a mirage as the one being trumpeted today.
So far 29 people have lost their lives as Egypt falls apart because of the appallingly stupid actions of its armed forces, who in overthrowing a democratically elected government, banning the party that had won th country’s only democratic election, and imposing a new constititution, for which there was a 38.4 per cent turn out, have virtually guaranteed the break up of the state.
Three years ago today, protesters gathered in Tahrer Square to demand the end of military rule.
They succeeded in getting rid of the man at the top, but not the apparatus that had kept him power for some four decades.
And today, as a military man is poised to take the presidency in an ‘election’ that would have been recognised by Saddam Hussein of Iraq, one has to wonder what has really been achieved in Egypt.