Egypt crisis: President Morsi 'annuls' powers decree

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5. dballance asked in another thread (now locked), "What Was He Thinking?"

Here's what Morsi was thinking as far as I can tell:

a) He wanted to retry Mubarak and his security chiefs, as he feels they'd been too lightly punished, and

b) He wanted to prevent the Egyptian courts from abolishing what's left of the Egyptian legislature and the constitutional committee before the Constitution goes to the citizenry for ratification in the upcoming Dec. 15 referendum.

The actual decrees don't seem to have been nearly as "far reaching" as they're made out to be, and the current sturm und drang seem directly aimed at nuking the Egyptian Constitution before it's ratified, also at toppling Morsi, and either would be very bad for Egypt. Both are strongly supported by Obama incidentally.