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dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)
Tue Aug 6, 2013, 01:02 PM Aug 2013

U.S. senators urge Egypt dialogue, prisoner release

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - Two senior U.S. senators visiting Cairo urged both sides in Egypt's political crisis on Tuesday to start a national dialogue and avoid violence amid intensifying diplomatic efforts to resolve the bloody stand-off.

Republicans Lindsey Graham and John McCain, despatched by U.S. President Barack Obama to help resolve the crisis sparked by the army's overthrow of elected Islamist President Mohamed Mursi last month, also called for the release of political prisoners.

After talks with Egypt's new rulers and civil society, they told a news conference it would wrong to cut off U.S. military assistance to Egypt, worth some $1.5 billion (976 million pounds) a year, for now in reaction to Mursi's removal, despite a U.S. law that mandates suspending aid in case of coup.

Read more: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/08/06/uk-egypt-protests-idUKBRE9750QW20130806

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U.S. senators urge Egypt dialogue, prisoner release (Original Post) dipsydoodle Aug 2013 OP
Not one Democratic Senator worthy of such a task, eh? Says much...indeed. eom Purveyor Aug 2013 #1
A coup is only a coup . . . another_liberal Aug 2013 #2
Well, we will John2 Aug 2013 #3
Graham and McCain are showboating on the taxpayer's dollar. another_liberal Aug 2013 #4
 

another_liberal

(8,821 posts)
2. A coup is only a coup . . .
Tue Aug 6, 2013, 01:36 PM
Aug 2013

After what happened recently in Egypt, and four years ago in Honduras, it is clear that the United States' official policy is that a coup is only a coup when it doesn't advance our international dominance and influence. Otherwise a coup is known as, "enhanced democracy."

 

John2

(2,730 posts)
3. Well, we will
Tue Aug 6, 2013, 02:24 PM
Aug 2013

see if you are correct about the Egyptian military and if they answer to the United States. John McCain and Lindsey Graham need the Muslim Brotherhood for their warmongering goals in the Middle East, which they disquise for Democracy. Morsi was helping them out. The neocons and the Obama Administration are on the same side when it comes to Foreign Policy in the Middle East.

Here you have two Republican Senators, acting in the role of the U.S. State Department. There is no opposition Party in the U.S. More evidence, it is runned by the Rightwingers. And the State Department is runned by none other than John Kerry, whom they endorsed for Secretary of State.

 

another_liberal

(8,821 posts)
4. Graham and McCain are showboating on the taxpayer's dollar.
Tue Aug 6, 2013, 10:01 PM
Aug 2013

They're getting lots of face time on the local news back home, and they both need to burnish their badly tarnished images.

As to there being "no opposition party": Maybe so, but voting for the Republicans is still like shooting yourself in the head and voting for a third party is still just throwing your vote away. With the Democrats one at least has a party whose politicians are afraid enough of middle and working class rejection that they won't let America's one percent steal every damn thing all at once.

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