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Source: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/06/07/brother_number_one
Brother Number One
(Foreign Policy) Shadi Hamid - If the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi comes out on top in the upcoming presidential runoff election, scheduled for June 16 and 17, the Islamist movement will have won control of both Egypt's presidency and its parliament. Historically, the Brotherhood has been one of the more consistent purveyors of anti-American and anti-Israeli sentiment. Morsi is a graduate of the University of Southern California and the father of two U.S. citizens. But does it really matter what Morsi thinks? The Brotherhood's presidential campaign was never about Morsi. It was about the Brotherhood, and Morsi just happened to be the substitute candidate - an unlikely accident of history - after the charismatic Khairat El Shater was disqualified from the race. The writer is director of research at the Brookings Doha Center and a fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.