Posted on 07/27/2013 5:08:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The United States urged Arab ally Egypt to pull "back from the brink" after security forces killed dozens of supporters of deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and opened a dangerous new phase in the army's confrontation with his Muslim Brotherhood...
Washington, treading a fine line with an important Middle East ally and recipient of over $1 billion in military aid, urged the Egyptian security forces to respect the right to peaceful protest...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry spoke to two senior members of Egypt's army-installed interim cabinet, expressing his "deep concern."
"This is a pivotal moment for Egypt," he said in a statement. "The United States ... calls on all of Egypt's leaders across the political spectrum to act immediately to help their country take a step back from the brink."
Saturday's violence, and the threat of more, has deepened alarm in the West over events in the country of 84 million people, a vital bridge between the Middle East and North Africa.
Over 200 people have died in violence since Sisi deposed Mursi on the back of huge popular protests against his rule, ending a one-year experiment in government by the Muslim Brotherhood after decades spent in the shadows under successive Egyptian strongmen.
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Lurch...that is funny.
If we had any kind of honest media in this country, Obama would have been forced out of office by now.
But we don’t.
We certainly need to mind our own business.
Certainly we pulled back from the brink in the Gulf war, and that was a sorry mistake.
Egypt has this issue in its midst and needs to deal with it now.
Crushing the Muslim Brotherhood IS pulling back from the brink.
The utterly disgraced USA needs to STFU. Egypt will have to sort out their civil war that Obama gifted them with. The blood running in the streets is just a bump in the road to Obama’s Muslim Brotherhood plans.
Radical muslims allied with Hamas & Iran are getting killed. Toasts all around!
/bingo
Well said.
He’s been in prison — no house arrest, no electronic tether, the armed forces have his sorry ass wrapped up. If there’s any further progress by the Islamofascists, he’ll be shot on TV and his carcass thrown in the Nile.
” U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry spoke to two senior members of Egypt’s army-installed interim cabinet, expressing his “deep concern.”
John Kerry-Heinz is going to have to get with Mrs. Slick Willy and learn how to write those “stern letters of concern” which with the right moon phase and climate conditions might strike the fear of Allah the Goat God into their black hearts. That’s the way Slick Willy’s sometimes squeeze did it.
Egypt’s generals back in favor after first flawed transition
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/26/us-egypt-protests-army-idUSBRE96P0H720130726
Special Report: How the Muslim Brotherhood lost Egypt
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/26/us-egypt-mistakes-specialreport-idUSBRE96O07H20130726
Violence deepens Egypt turmoil, deposed leader probed for murder
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/26/us-egypt-protests-idUSBRE96O11Z20130726
You mean to tell me Kerry has been in office for more than a month and has not settled the mideast problems?
:’) It took him years just to pay the taxes he owed on that yacht scam.
Maybe Lurch and Obama should not have given Egypt so much ammo. It will take the Egyptian Army quite a while before they run out. Meanwhile a bunch of Morsi brotherhood idiots will be removed - not a bad thing for Egypt.
oh noes i too am filled with deep concern
ok that is a lie
Let’s see. The army is killing crazed, anti-American Jihadist who hate American and would behead most of us if given half a chance.
What is the problem here?
” pull “back from the brink”
Hell NO
Moosie killing moosie, doesn’t get any better than that,
;’)
Sounds like the Dims in charge - any sign of progress requires a quick about face...The Egyptian Army seems to be the most stable and sane entity in this mess.
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