This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Wednesday, July 10th, 2013.

I'm Caleb Brown. Chaos rains in Egypt and perhaps not surprisingly, every side of the struggle for power after the

ouster of President Morsi is blaming the United States.

Doug Bandau is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute he comments on the deteriorating situation.

What we've seen in Egypt as a coup, some people don't want to describe it as such, but I tell people,

imagine in the US, if US Army Unit showed up at the White House,

arrested the President, several of his aides, went over to the Democratic National Committee,

arrested top Democratic staffers, closed down MS NBC and other democratically inclined

media and then promptly shot down demonstrators who were protesting I

think we'd call it a coup d'etat. So the problem what we've had in Egypt they had

a political crisis they have a president who was elected a year ago

Wasn't doing very well a lot of people wanted to get rid of him and they didn't want to wait for elections so they had massive demonstrations and they called

on the military to intervene so now you've got a country that's divided his supporters are

angry they're demonstrating the other side's demonstrating you know they can't get agreement within kind of the

the new government. We don't know how much authority it really has. This could

be become much more violent. They've already had scores of demonstrators

killed. It's caused divisions within those kind of

who ousted president morsey and America happens to be hated by everybody

because everyone blames America it's an amazing situation.

They're saying that the United States is involved in apparently every side of the

of the conflict.

Yes, what you find is that supporters of ousted President Morassai argue the US had to be behind it.

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