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 Egypts 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/
It’s a great story. Hope the Sun isn’t getting punked.
That Chicago Way stuff doesn’t play outside the sandbox in the real world.
Well, hes got 3.5 more years to slice and dice.
The next shoe to drop is our carriers. I suspect hes going to try to eliminate some battle groups.
Hagel has already mentioned eliminating three carrier battle groups.
We’re going to see some SHTF before Nov., 2016.
I hope you're right but given the head-up-ass posture of the American public and media, I doubt it. We'll accept defeat brainlessly.
It's Obama, McCain, Graham who made 'huge mistake' in Egypt
With their current stance on Egypt, President Obama, Sens. John McCain and Lindsay Graham are risking one of Americas most crucial alliances
On their current trip to Cairo,Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.),two of President Barack Obamas most persistent critics on everything in foreign policy from Syria to Benghazi,have found common cause with him at last.
All three fear that the anti-American (and generally anti-human) Muslim Brotherhood (MB),whom they mistakenly see as moderate, will disappear from the halls of power in Egypt,our most important Arab ally.
They also evidently worry that the MBs leading figures,such as now-deposed (and arrested) President Mohamed Morsiwho had awarded himself powers greater than any previous ruler in Egypts historywill not be free to plot a return to power in an ancient nation that he had nearly destroyed in only one year.
If Hagel tries that, he should be take out back and shot.
I’m not advocating anything, and I do not plan on doing anything myself, but this is very very very wrong.
McCain and Graham are working with him and have been on a range of issues.
China and Russia also seem to be working on aiding the terrorists.
There fixed.
Youseff Ibrahim has a LinkdIn bio that shows him as a NY Sun columnist, with decades at the NYT. THE Iranians picked HIM up, not vice versa. He is an Egyptian with a Jesuit education.
We’ll accept defeat brainlessly.
I’ve come to that conclusion.
I spoke with a man not long ago and he said he will not risk himself or his family for the likes of those who voted for Obama.
It is time to hunker down into survival mode and get closer to God. Get as close to as many like minded people as possible.
It continues...nobama is such a great mastermind and glorious leader. With mclame & graham helping him, what could possibly go wrong? Remember, comrades, everything nobama does is intentional...everything.
I agree.
Good articles. Thanks.
Now we are calling Egytians infidels? Why would they surrender like this? Like us? Stupid.
We are turning the whole mid east into an unaccountable Taleban land.
Dirty mccain, traitor and obama’s machine will “out” him. And of course, they’ll also “out” Graham but for a different type of “outing”. obama says “frog” and they jump.
3.5 years feels like an eternity.
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