Egyptian al Sisi’s Military Coup: White House Should Bite the Bullet & Move On huffingtonpost/2013/07/01/mohamed-kamel-amr-egypt-resignation-resigns_n_3531051.html reuters/article/2013/07/04/us-egypt-protests-foreign-kerry-idUSBRE9630PE20130704 However handsomely you dress a pig, it is still a pig. A coup is a coup. When executed by the military, as is often the case, it is a military coup, even if coupists fire no bullet. Mohamed Amr should not be selling us a dressed pig for a Dalmatian puppy! For those new to Amr, he is the turncoat Foreign Minister who resigned his post under Morsi and cross-carpeted to al-Sisi in 24 hours without ever leaving his job! In military coups, elected governments are overthrown by gun-toting soldiers and their microphone-hugging bosses. They suspend the constitution; hunt down and detain or kill members of an elected government and shut down TV stations and other media outlets perceived as propagating dissent. Soldiers fan out across the land as if fighting foreign enemies. There may be human casualties. Curfew is imposed from dusk to dawn or as one blundering soldier once said, from “dawn to dusk.” The al Sisi-led forceful intervention did virtually all of these. Observers not talking tongue-in-cheek call out this Egyptian tragedy a military coup, not some platitude. Understandably, political leaders are in dire straits on this, but they need not compound the situation by joining the likes of Amr to insult our intelligence and erode their own credibility. The executive should avoid wasting national resources bickering with legislators on the $1.5 billion Egyptian military and non-military aid. In due deference to our laws, the aid should be axed. If we have strategic national interests at stake (only few argue otherwise), we should address those independently of the compromised aids. Aspiring spin doctors within and outside the administration should invest their energies productively elsewhere.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 01:18:48 +0000
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