Instead, the coup, coming just one year after the formation of an elected government – and just a few months after then-US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Morsi to mark the end of hostilities between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip – could give rise to great frustration among Islamists across the region. Indeed, the region’s geostrategic situation has changed again since the Clinton-Morsi meeting, and the response of both the United States and the European Union (for which the Mediterranean is crucial) has been late and erratic.
反之，当选政府组成不到一年——距离时任美国国务卿希拉里·克林顿与穆尔西会面、标志以色列和加沙地带哈马斯结束敌对状态更是只有几个月——就爆发政变将给整个地区的伊斯兰教徒带来深深的挫败感。事实上，自克林顿-穆尔西会晤以来，该地区地缘政治局势已经发生了改变，而美国和欧盟的反应（对欧盟来说，地中海至关重要）姗姗来迟又飘忽不定。谁是朋友，谁是敌人无法认清。特别是欧盟，它应该以更明确、更协调、更有效的政策介入该地区。