The crackdown on Egyptian protest camps by the security forces which began Wednesday was grimly predictable. What was not predictable was either its ferocity or the fact that the political and constitutional process which the West had initially encouraged would reach its definitive end to the sound of almost deafening silence from western capitals. The tame response from the European Union and the United States to what is now the third large massacre carried out by the new Egyptian government since the coup shows that Western leaders are betting on the military regime as the best chance to return stability to Egypt, even if it is a stability drenched in blood.
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