A man threw stones in Tahrir Square in Cairo on Thursday as protests continued. President Obama told President Mohamed Morsi of Egypt that he must speak out strongly against the protests. Tara Todras-Whitehill for The New York Times
Egypt, Hearing From Obama, Moves to Heal Rift From Protests -- New York Times
CAIRO — Following a blunt phone call from President Obama, Egyptian leaders scrambled Thursday to try to repair the country’s alliance with Washington, tacitly acknowledging that they erred in their response to the attack on the United States Embassy by seeking to first appease anti-American domestic opinion without offering a robust condemnation of the violence.
Set off by anger at an American-made video ridiculing the Prophet Muhammad, the attacks on the embassy put President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood in a squeeze between the need to stand with Washington against the attackers and the demands of many Egyptians to defy Washington and defend Islam, a senior Brotherhood official acknowledged.
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My Comment: I cannot resist .... but what is the New York Times peddling in this article? If his latest comments are any indication .... Egypt's President Morsi is clearly "not scrambling" to accommodate President Obama's concerns .... and considering what is happening in the Middle East today .... neither is anyone else.
The story that the New York Times should focus on is the same story that every other news agency outside the U.S. is focusing on .... Obama's Middle East policy is in ruins .... but to do so would undermine the news template that they have been peddling all week.
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