Sisi: Egypt's "Erdogan"

A mind boggling law endorsed by the government of Abdel Fattah Sisi is awaiting approval of lawmakers.  Time frame of this legislation includes the period between July 2013 to January 2016 when senior military officers under Sisi's directive ordered indiscriminate killing of "Morsi supporters" or more precisely put, anyone who opposed the clampdown.  Thousands were randomly killed in a series of blood-drenched onslaughts which included many bystanders.  Undoubtedly, during this time frame, incidents of crime against humanity did occur quite randomly, many of which were avoidable.   Sisi's law is now pushing to grant immunity from prosecution to everyone in the military for whatever violations or excesses they carried out during the July 2013 coup.  

Senior Egyptian military personnel have long been living a high life, gobbling the bulk of the $2 billion the country gets from the U.S. annually.   Additionally, the recent law proposed by Sisi grants them the entitlement to  "all the benefits associated with the highest ministerial and diplomatic positions."

Washington played the most amazing badass opportunist conceivable.  It ditched old pal Mubarak when it became obvious he didn't stand a rose petal's chance in hell.  Then it began patronizing Morsi, poking Sisi to stay away.  A year later when the anti-Morsi crowd gave the green light to Sisi, the White House and U.S. media fell mute to the  carnage carried out at Sisi's behest.

It goes without saying, I'm absolutely NO champion of the ousted Morsi.  He was corrupt, a sectarianist, a partisan blatantly in favor of the deviant salafiism.  But replacing one brand of injustice with another is NO solution to a crisis either.

Diversity of political policies don't really make leaders too different.  It's their determination to serve themselves with the typical trail of shit that follows - inequity, repression, exploitation - which makes them identical as are Sisi and Erdogan among many others.