Egypt presidency says diplomacy failed to end crisis

Reuters ^ | August 7, 2013 | By Michael Georgy and Maggie Fick

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Egypt's army-installed government said on Wednesday diplomatic efforts to resolve the political crisis had failed and signaled it was gearing to take action against supporters of deposed President Mohamed Mursi gathered at two protest camps in Cairo.

Envoys from the United States, European Union, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates had been trying to defuse the crisis and prevent further bloodshed.

But President Adli Mansour's office said the period of international efforts, which began more than 10 days ago, had "ended today".

[Oldeconomybuyer]

" Mubarak must go now, and now means now".

[Cicero]

Obama didn’t hesitate to bomb schools and hospitals to oust our ally in Libya and install al Qaida there. And he didn’t hesitate to insist on ousting Mubarak and installing the Muslim Brotherhood fanatics in Egypt. He never said a word when they started murdering Christians, raping women, and burning churches.

In fact, he clearly likes burning churches, since he backed his church-burning Communist Muslim cousin in Kenya with taxpayer funding when he was burning churches full of women and children and beheading those who objected.

Unfortunately, the only way to keep the Muslim fanatics out of power in Muslim countries is by way of the military and the thuggish dictators they back. And clearly that’s what the vast majority of Egyptians want at this point.

[Red Badger]

War is the ultimate failure of diplomacy.......

[Azeem]

This is one time Islam is not the root cause. Arab society is based on the tribe/family, not religion. It just happens that most families are the same religion and the same flavor of that religion but that isn’t always true.

You need dictators and the thugs in any tribal-based society for it to function. We saw the exact same thing in Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia, and other former Soviet satellite countries. Once the Soviets left and the dictator was removed, the tribes immediately went after each other.

[TexasCajun]

I thought Obama sent John MeCain to save Mursi & the muslim brotherhood?

[JoeFromSidney]

The Egyptian Army had two choices: suppress the protesters, or throw out the government against which the protests were aimed. Ultimately they'd have had to do one or the other. The choice they made seems to satisfy the Egyptian people.

What are we doing interfering with the internal affairs of Egypt?