Well, it could have been worse:
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the general who toppled Egypt's first freely elected leader, took more than 90 percent of the vote in a presidential election, provisional results showed on Thursday, joining a long line of leaders drawn from the military.
But a lower-than-expected turnout figure raised questions about the credibility of a man idolized by his supporters as a hero who can deliver political and economic stability.
The Arab Spring started with people unhappy about autocracy or the traditional alternative of an Islamist government calling for democracy.
Associating "democracy" with modernity, these people didn't really understand what democracy is. Which is where I though our job was. The Iraq War was part of that job. We walked away from that part of the job, sad to say.
In what was possibly a rigged election, the Islamists won, betrayed the trust that they weren't really Islamist, and saw enough people content that the military overthrew the Mursi-led Islamist government.
And now a dismal election turnout--and quite possibly rigged, too, puts the military back in charge.
The revolution is always complete when you reach the point you started from.
Maybe the next time the people demonstrate their unhappiness with the corruption and poverty that autocracy and Islamism deliver, they'll really try democracy.
