He had an emergency meeting to discuss the crisis in egypt. Egyps foreign minister the first since the ousting of the president this. There. This morning he stressed the u. S. Ties with egypt are vie al. I asked how the u. S. Can reconcile the democracy in egypt. It comes down to two facts about u. S. Foreign policy in the middle east. One the u. S. Is committed to maintaining the peace treaty between egypt and israel and it can simply not end a relationship with egypt in order to maintain that peace treaty. That is where you see the material or the military parts that are still being given to the military to help preserve the security in the sinai peninsula, for example. There is also the matter of trying to enhance the u. S. stature across the middle east. It would not due for the Obama Administration to cut off all ties with the country with who its had a long standing political and military relationship because of these political problems. With that said one. Points secon secretary