The New Yorker has a brief piece on the views of Mohammed Abu al-Ghar, whom it describes as a lynchpin of Egypt’s liberals and emblematic of their support for the military.  In it, he admits that he and other decision-makers contemplated the possibility of a substantial number of deaths from the very moment the decision was made to move against the protesters.  But what kind of justification is given for this?  He absurdly claims that Morsi was much worse than Nixon, and Americans refused to let Nixon complete his term.