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Egyptian here. Don't listen to the idiots who bash you for demanding justice, especially not fellow citizens who claim that protests are "wrecking the country" and who applaud higher authority like the security forces. The type of people who say stuff like this will typically be old poorly-educated conservatives.

If it were up to these people, the Egyptian uprising would have resulted in nothing and Omar Suleiman (Mubarak's intelligence chief) would probably be our President right now.

Were the Egyptian pilots you were teaching tough to train?

Was the Soviet doctrine and training tough to "unteach", or did you find that they caught on to US TTPs fairly quickly?

Edit: Just noticed that you wrapped up the AMA. Thanks for doing this, anyway. It was greatly informative.

That's very interesting, thank you for the answer!

From the last Pew survey:

Roughly four-in-ten (38%) rate the now banned Muslim Brotherhood favorably. The organization’s popularity has declined considerably since the spring of 2013 when it stood at 63%.

And 56% of Egyptians view them unfavorably.

It's becoming more apparent everyday that large swaths of the population never wanted the 2011 to happen

I don't think this is true. Maybe now they don't wish it happened, but I think most Egyptians were optimistic after the Revolution