The Obama administration is not supporting the military in Egypt. They supported the MB initially and only embraced the inevitable because they have lost all influence.
This is the guy that is now killing the MB nut jobs that are burning down Coptic Churches and killing everyone that is not their flavor of radical Islam.
I don’t care what he wrote. He’s doing the right thing in Egypt for now. I hope he makes good on the promise to rebuild the Coptic churches that the MB are burning.
The Arab world is tribal. You have to get the religious and tribal leader support to get anything done.
I don’t believe the man for a second. He’s not turning his back on his own thesis. Anything Sisi does is for his own benefit and not the West’s.
Sisi could have easily moved the military to protect the Copts against well-anticipated MB attacks, but did not.
The Obama Administration is absolutely supporting the military; they’ve been doing that all along, even in spite of the break between the MB and their military appointees. The administration still steadfastly refuses to say the words “military coup”.