11/07/2013
Another reason why the U.S. hasn't condemned Egypt's coup: one high-level personal relationship
p/pThe Obama administration and a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/07/05/key-congressional-committee-backs-egypt-coup/"key congressional leaders/a, to the chagrin of some Egyptians and Americans, have gone out of their way to avoid calling the Egyptian military's July 2 overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi a "coup." Presumably, that's in large part because calling it a coup could, under a U.S. law, compel the United States to a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/07/05/u-s-has-spotty-record-on-law-requiring-it-to-cut-aid-after-coups/"cut its billion-plus dollars in annual foreign aid/a to Egypt. And it likely also has to do with the administration's increasing impatience with Morsi's mistakes and its desire to maintain leverage with the Egyptian military, one of the most powerful institutions in one of the most important countries in the Middle East./pa href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/another-reason-why-the-us-hasnt-condemned-egypts-coup-one-high-level-personal-relationship/2013/07/11/964b6f0a-ea3a-11e2-818e-aa29e855f3ab_blog.html?wprss=rss_world"Read full article #62;#62;/aimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636708/s/2e86a4e9/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fblogpost%2Fpost%2Fanother-reason-why-the-us-hasnt-condemned-egypts-coup-one-high-level-personal-relationship%2F2013%2F07%2F11%2F964b6f0a-ea3a-11e2-818e-aa29e855f3ab_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Another+reason+why+the+U.S.+hasn%27t+condemned+Egypt%27s+coup%3A+one+high-level+personal+relationship" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fblogpost%2Fpost%2Fanother-reason-why-the-us-hasnt-condemned-egypts-coup-one-high-level-personal-relationship%2F2013%2F07%2F11%2F964b6f0a-ea3a-11e2-818e-aa29e855f3ab_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Another+reason+why+the+U.S.+hasn%27t+condemned+Egypt%27s+coup%3A+one+high-level+personal+relationship" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fblogpost%2Fpost%2Fanother-reason-why-the-us-hasnt-condemned-egypts-coup-one-high-level-personal-relationship%2F2013%2F07%2F11%2F964b6f0a-ea3a-11e2-818e-aa29e855f3ab_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Another+reason+why+the+U.S.+hasn%27t+condemned+Egypt%27s+coup%3A+one+high-level+personal+relationship" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fblogpost%2Fpost%2Fanother-reason-why-the-us-hasnt-condemned-egypts-coup-one-high-level-personal-relationship%2F2013%2F07%2F11%2F964b6f0a-ea3a-11e2-818e-aa29e855f3ab_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Another+reason+why+the+U.S.+hasn%27t+condemned+Egypt%27s+coup%3A+one+high-level+personal+relationship" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fblogpost%2Fpost%2Fanother-reason-why-the-us-hasnt-condemned-egypts-coup-one-high-level-personal-relationship%2F2013%2F07%2F11%2F964b6f0a-ea3a-11e2-818e-aa29e855f3ab_blog.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Another+reason+why+the+U.S.+hasn%27t+condemned+Egypt%27s+coup%3A+one+high-level+personal+relationship" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165668622753/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2e86a4e9/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165668622753/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2e86a4e9/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165668622753/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2e86a4e9/a2t.img" border="0"/
