[upchuck]

I’m sure Linda will have lots of opinions and ideas on Egypt.

She’s such a foreign policy whiz.

[PaleoBob]

I’m sure Linda will have lots of opinions and ideas on Egypt.

She’s such a foreign policy whiz.

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It’s amazing, ain’t it She is probably thinking of herself as the post-modern Lawrence of Arabia these days.

“’Awrence!”—??

No.

“’Indsay!’”

[maggief]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/world/middleeast/pressure-by-us-failed-to-sway-egypts-leaders.html?pagewanted=all

“You could tell people were itching for a fight,” Mr. Graham recalled in an interview. “The prime minister was a disaster. He kept preaching to me: ‘You can’t negotiate with these people. They’ve got to get out of the streets and respect the rule of law.’ I said: ‘Mr. Prime Minister, it’s pretty hard for you to lecture anyone on the rule of law. How many votes did you get? Oh, yeah, you didn’t have an election.’ ”

General Sisi, Mr. Graham said, seemed “a little bit intoxicated by power.”

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