Posted on 08/10/2013 7:30:51 PM PDT by upchuck
In a cascade of mutual recriminations over the past three days, President Mansour and his prime minister, Hazem Biblawi, described two senior American senators, sent as emissaries of President Barak Obama, as “delusional” and “liars.”
The two senators arrived with demands to release all Muslim Brotherhood leaders being held under arrest and to integrate the party into the new revolutionary government. Otherwise, they warned, the Obama administration will cutoff all financial and military aid to Egypt.
Spokesmen for both the presidency and the prime minister immediately took umbrage, joined by an array of press commentators, who accused the two Americans, Senators McCain and Graham, of “manufacturing facts” and of “unwelcome interference in Egypt’s internal affairs.” The flagship Egyptian newspaper, Al Ahram, said the senators engaged in “foolish statements that are unacceptable.”
Following a press conference in which Mr. McCain threatened sanctions, the leader of the Egyptian Popular Current party, Hamdeen Sabahi, who is a co-leader of the ruling National Salvation Front, described Mr. McCain as “a senile old man.”
On the streets, nationalist sentiment was not far behind. The ‘’Rebel Movement’’ is pitching a new drive titled ‘’Say No to US Aid’’, which runs at $ 1.5 billion a year. So grave is the situation that military sources told Reuters on Wednesday that Egypt may call off critical joint military maneuvers code-named Bright Star.
Bright Star, which has been taking place since 1981, comprises the largest such exercises in the region. The exercises have been jointly led by America and Egypt, with participation of Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and sometimes Turkey.
The confrontation emerging between the Obama administration and Egypt represents a startling collapse for a president who, in Mr. Obama, made his first presidential demarche a speech at Cairo reaching out to the Muslim world. Now the confrontation threatens to destroy the foundation of regional, military, intelligence and anti-terror alliances built over decades...
Read the rest here: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/08/09/318000/usegypt-alliance-on-verge-of-collapse/
How can it get any better?
Well done Obama.
Sounds like very Queer behavior to me.
This is crazy. I don’t think of the Egyptians as bosom buddies, but to blow whatever relationship you have (while sending them billions in bribes, er aid) over that MB jerk Morsi is amateur hour bag-over-your-head-unknown-comic/diplomat incompetence.
We know better :)
Bet they were glad to get out of there.
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Obama —REALLY making the USA more respected in the world..!
Russia loves us, too, now!
Things don't just slide off him, they bounce off and accelerate in the opposite direction. The Limbaugh Theorem if you will.
McCain and Graham are like Stalin's Useful Idiots. The same ones that were imprisoned in the Gulags and cried when they heard Uncle Joe Stalin died.
Any legit US-Egypt alliance went out the door with Mubarak.
This has got to be satire.
Is there any country in this world that Obama hasn’t pissed off?
By the way McCain and Linda Graham ARE liars, and traitors to their party too.
For most people in America, alliance with Egypt is pretty much past tense.
...President Mansour and his prime minister, Hazem Biblawi, described two senior American senators, sent as emissaries of President Barak Obama, as “delusional” and “liars.”
Sounds pretty realistic to me.
Don’t worry, my president (Putin) will step in and fix things.
Something else 0bama can blame on the republicans.
Following a press conference in which Mr. McCain threatened sanctions, the leader of the Egyptian Popular Current party, Hamdeen Sabahi, who is a co-leader of the ruling National Salvation Front, described Mr. McCain as “a senile old man.”
Mr. Sabahi sure has that part pegged right.
Counting down the days till Egypt expels US personnel and invites in Russian “advisors”.
You stole my comment!
Something else 0bama can blame on the republicans.
How stupid do you have to be to NOT see this coming?
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