When Egypt’s army took the side of millions of citizens occupying the country’s streets and squares and ousted Mohamed Morsi on Wednesday, it swept aside a legitimately elected president who had serially failed litmus tests of democratic legitimacy. There is no room left for Egypt to keep failing these tests – and no need for a country that can mobilise at this level of vitality to retain the men in uniform as pharaoh makers.
周三，埃及军方站在了数百万占领街头和广场的民众一边，将穆罕默德•穆尔西(Mohamed Morsi)赶下了台。军方罢黜的是一位经合法选举上台、却接连未能通过民主合法性检验的总统。在这种检验中，埃及不容再失败。而既然埃及能够动员起如此浩大的民众能量，它也不再需要由军方来拥立领导人。
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