Authoritarian Rule: ‘Egyptians Yearn for Security and Order’

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Frank Gardner, former BBC bureau chief in Cairo, tells anchor Marco Werman why the army crackdown in Egypt has such wide support there.

He says Egyptians–like their neighbors in Iraq and Syria–yearn not for democracy, but for security and order.

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