A protester who is against former Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi holds a poster of U.S. President Barack Obama sporting a beard during a protest at Tahrir square in Cairo July 7, 2013. REUTERS-Amr Abdallah Dalsh
They Hate Us, They Really Hate Us -- Marc Lynch, Foreign Policy
When anti-Americanism is this popular in Egypt, Washington should stay as far away as it can.
This week, Hosni Mubarak's old media boss, Abdel Latif el-Menawy, published an astonishing essay on the website of the Saudi-funded, Emirati-based satellite television station Al Arabiya. Menawy described a wild conspiracy in which the U.S. ambassador to Egypt, Anne Patterson, directed Muslim Brotherhood snipers to murder Egyptian soldiers.
It would be easy to dismiss the ravings of an old Mubarak hand if they were not almost tame compared with the wild rumors and allegations across much of the Egyptian media and public. Even longtime observers of Egyptian rhetoric have been taken aback by the vitriol and sheer lunacy of the current wave of anti-American rhetoric. The streets have been filled with fliers, banners, posters, and graffiti denouncing President Barack Obama for supporting terrorism and featuring Photoshopped images of Obama with a Muslim-y beard or bearing Muslim Brotherhood colors.
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Update: Washington vilified on both sides of Egypt's divide -- Reuters
My Comment: One thing that I have learned about such movements is that they may "hate us", but if given the chance to immigrate to the U.S. to become U.S. citizens .... 99% of them would grab the opportunity
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true enough. but they also hate us and keep taking the money we send yearly.
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