[lbo-talk] From the WSJ: Crackdown in Egypt Fans U.S. Fears

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Jul 29 09:45:40 PDT 2013


On Jul 29, 2013, at 12:27 PM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote:


> The Obama administration is anxious that repression will exclude and alienate the Muslim Brotherhood and its mass following from electoral politics, but not anxious enough to cut ties with its main strategic ally, the Egyptian high command. Instead, it is trying directly and through Egypt's acting vice president, Mohamed ElBaradei, to restrain the military from further provocations.

Hey, he tweeted reservations over the weekend.



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