so, you remember what happened in algeria. not that it s going to happen in e egypt, but when a military pushed aside democratically elected islamists, the salvation front, that led to a civil war of horrific proportions. tha that s not going to happen in egy egypt. how do you integrate the muslim brotherhood into the politics? here s the thing i kept thinking about, i would not want to be the person who wakes up every morning for the egypt portfolio for the u.s. government. if i could get in a time machine now and talk to some american in 2003 and said, check this out, in ten years the u.s. government will be viewed by the most populist arab nation in the world being close to the political islam party. you would be like, are you out of your mind? somehow it now perceived at the u.s. and muslim brotherhood of all people are in bed together. it s hugely ironic.
he embargoed the statement until after midnight and they broke their own embargo and put it out on 9/11 and got in this sort of whole world, which they didn t need. mary, what about the differences between the real differences between romney foreign policy and obama foreign policy on the middle east. a couple of his advisors said, romney s advisors said those would include different earlier red lines on iran, helping the opposition in syria, with a lethal weapons if need be through arab intermediate arearies, and a stronger line with egypt. if you don t pull that, we ll pull american aid. as dan says, they ve not talked much about foreign policy and one of the reasons why, president obama i m sorry, candidate romney does not want to talk about foreign policy is he s afraid of being somehow connected with the bush administration, which, you know, engaged in two wars and so forth. i think he could get around that problem by saying, look,
he embargoed the statement until after midnight and they broke their own embargo and put it out on 9/11 and got in this sort of whole world, which they didn t need. mary, what about the differences between the real differences between romney foreign policy and obama foreign policy on the middle east. a couple of his advisors said, romney s advisors said those would include different earlier red lines on iran, helping the opposition in syria, with a lethal weapons if need be through arab intermediate arearies, and a stronger line with egypt. if you don t pull that, we ll pull american aid. as dan says, they ve not talked much about foreign policy and one of the reasons why, president obama i m sorry, candidate romney does not want to talk about foreign policy is he s afraid of being somehow connected with the bush administration, which, you know, engaged in two wars and so forth. i think he could get around that problem by saying, look,
vulnerability in that part of the world. and the egyptian president, a basket case. the egyptian economy. and an as a result there are so many unemployed young people, about 78%, and morsi has to engage with the rest of the world to raise his economy. and i think that is going to be a complicated process. some nation has to lead the rest of the world in trying and that would be the united states. it isn t going to just happen on its own. somebody has to exercise leadership. meanwhile, the other big event this week is the argument, public argument between israel and prime minister benjamin netanyahu and the united states over how firmly to draw so-called red lines against iran s nuclear program. it was an hour long phone call one evening this week between netanyahu and obama seemed to have calmed the latest furor down. what message does that send to our foes in the middle east
he embargoed the statement until after midnight and they broke their own embargo and put it out on 9/11 and got in this sort of whole world, which they didn t need. mary, what about the differences between the real differences between romney foreign policy and obama foreign policy on the middle east. a couple of his advisors said, romney s advisors said those would include different earlier red lines on iran, helping the opposition in syria, with a lethal weapons if need be through arab intermediate arearies, and a stronger line with egypt. if you don t pull that, we ll pull american aid. as dan says, they ve not talked much about foreign policy and one of the reasons why, president obama i m sorry, candidate romney does not want to talk about foreign policy is he s afraid of being somehow connected with the bush administration, which, you know, engaged in two wars and so forth. i think he could get around that problem by saying, look,