In Egypt, U.S. Is Left With a Familiar False Choice -- Wall Street Journal
Washington's Predicament: Side With Either the Army or Islamists
The U.S. is playing a losing hand in Egypt right now, and it may have no choice but to play on in the short run. But in the long run, it needs to toss in these cards and draw some new ones.
The army's ouster of President Mohammed Morsi has left the U.S. with the same false choice it has grappled with for decades in Egypt: between the army on the one hand, and the Islamists in Mr. Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood party on the other.
That's a terrible predicament, one in which the U.S. inevitably is asked to pick the lesser of evils, then blamed by one or both sides for how it does so. Monday's army attack on Brotherhood followers only underscored the sterility of the options.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
How the U.S. Helped Fund the Egyptian Coup -- David Francis, Fiscal Times
Egypt's political unrest causes regional concern -- Jonathan Marcus, BBC
Morsi’s ouster a ‘nightmare’ for Hamas rulers in Gaza Strip -- Sheera Frenkel, McClatchy Foreign Staff
Saudi Arabia Cheers the Coup in Egypt -- Bruce Riedel, Daily Beast
How Syria's Civil War Became a Holy Crusade -- Thomas Hegghammer and Aaron Y. Zelin, Foreign Affairs
Iran Makes an Epic Blunder in Syria -- Gary Gambill, Real Clear World
While UK Dithers the World Gets Things Done -- Boris Johnson, Telegraph
How to make the Patriot Act more patriotic -- Jeffrey Rosen, Washington Post
Why Venezuela Offers Asylum to Snowden -- Mary Anastasia O'Grady, Wall Street Journal
In depth: Julian Assange and Edward Snowden - enemies of the state take flight -- Archie Bland, The Independent
The N.S.A.’s Costly European Adventure -- Steve Coll, New Yorker
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