From NEWSMAX
…On Friday, the president called on the Egyptian army to swiftly turn over power to a democratically elected civilian government.
Helene Cooper and David D. Kirkpatrick write in their Op-Ed, “the White House served notice that the army in Egypt would continue to receive the Obama administration’s support only, if it, in turn, supported a real democratic transition.”
They point out that this position runs the risk of causing a rift with the Egyptian army which in their words, “perhaps more than any other entity in the region, has for 30 years served as the bulwark protecting a critical American concern in the Middle East: the 1979 Camp David peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.”
Click here to read the full article.
