Taking a Wrong Turn on Egypt's Road to Democracy by Lt. Colonel James Zumwalt, USMC (ret)

"Egypt's "Arab Spring" has been no different. And, the fact that Islamists parties benefitted enormously more from the country's first free elections the revolution made possible than did the liberal democrats who started it comes as no surprise. The two main Islamists parties won 62% of the vote-the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) gaining 41% and Salafists 21%-as liberal democrats came in third. The MB was the only political group with an infrastructure in place to take advantage of the short interval between Mubarak's fall and the elections..." Let your opinion be heard! Click here to comment. Do you have an immediate Media Request? If so, please contact our Director of Operations at: Nancy@FamilySecurityMatters.org Lt. Colonel James G. Zumwalt, USMC (ret) is a retired Marine infantry officer who served in the Vietnam war, the US invasion of Panama and the first Gulf war. He is the author of "Bare Feet, Iron Will--Stories from the Other Side of Vietnam's Battlefields" and frequently writes on foreign policy and defense issues." Taking a Wrong Turn on Egypt's Road to Democracy by Lt. Colonel James G. Zumwalt, USMC (ret) Several times in history, those who have started revolutions lost control of them. Egypt's "Arab Spring" has been no different. CLICK HERE TO READ ARTICLE Continue reading on FSM and be sure to join in the conversation and leave your comments Click here to sign up for FSM's e-mail updates!