Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi’s spokesman did not mince words. He said that the “retirement” of all the senior military commanders in the country represented the completion of the Egyptian revolution. And guess what? The rest of the officer corps accepted Morsi’s decision.
Even as the spokesman was announcing that Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, the defense minister, and Gen. Sami Enan, the army chief of staff, were being retired, state television was showing other military officers, Gens. Abdel-Fatah al-Sisi and Sidki Sobhi, being sworn in by Morsi as their successors.
You could not ask for clearer evidence of the Egyptian officer corps’ collective decision to accept the results of last year’s popular revolution and the subsequent election that brought Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood to power. Especially since the heads of the air force, air-defense system and navy were removed from their posts at the same time.
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