He is right to regard the dictatorship of the military as revolutionary in
> these circumstances, for the simple reason that it DOESN'T offer itself as
> a long-term political form but rather as transitional.
I take it you've never spent five minutes researching Egypt's political history. The whole trick to military dictatorship there is to NOT "offer it ... as a long-term political form but rather" to call it something else altogether.
Did Nasser ever (post-1956) call his regime a military one? Sadat? Abu Taleb? Mubarak?
No. What's that tell you?
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."