[smokingfrog]

You don't think it's a coincidence that the SHTF when a bunch of Egyptian Military Chiefs were out of the country (at the Pentagon)?

[SE Mom]

Oh wow- I’d forgotten that piece of the puzzle...

Man this looks ugly, doesn’t it?

And I just saw this tweet:

@Max_Fisher: Trying and failing to think of another time the U.S. has publicly sought the removal of a close ally. Are there any??