His Options Few, Obama Rebukes Egypt’s Leaders [Pathetic POTUS]

New York Times ^ | August 15, 2013 | By Mark Ländler

[Oldeconomybuyer]

President Obama announced Thursday that the United States had canceled longstanding joint military exercises with the Egyptian Army set for next month, using one of his few obvious forms of leverage to rebuke Egypt’s military-backed government for its brutal crackdown on supporters of the ousted president, Mohamed Morsi.

Though the decision is an embarrassment to Egypt’s generals, and will deprive Egypt of much-needed revenue, it lays bare both the Obama administration’s limited options to curb the military’s campaign against Islamists in Egypt and the United States’ role as an increasingly frustrated bystander.

Some analysts said the administration had hurt itself by not undertaking a thorough review of its policy toward Egypt after the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak in 2011. The United States, they said, was too wedded to the privileges it gained from the relationship, like fly-over rights and fast-track transit through the Suez Canal.

[yoe]

Since this is apparently comes under the heading of “Workplace Violence”, wink-wink, Obama still wants to send money to the Muslim Brotherhood..’er a Egyptian military? No? well who is Obama courting in this civil war....does he even know what is going on....? yes...well...’er...you have a dog-leg to the left here Mr. President....