At The Request Of Obama, Republican Senators John McCain And Lindsey Graham Are Headed To Cairo

[Purveyor]

At the request of President Barack Obama, Republican senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham are headed to Cairo on Monday.

The Arizona and South Carolina senators respectively will meet with interim President Adly Mansour, Defense Minister Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and interim Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy, said Egyptian foreign affairs spokesman Badr Abdelatty, reported by CNN.

McCain and Graham are expected to arrive in Cairo amid an international effort to defuse the crisis ignited by Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi's removal and subsequent political unrest. Morsi’s supporters have been demonstrating for more than a month causing instability and compromising the unity needed to move forward in a democratic process for new elections.

Graham made an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday outlining the reasons he and McCain are making the trip. "The Egyptian military must move more aggressively toward turning over control to the civilian population, civilian organizations. The military can't keep running the country. We need democratic elections,” he said. “The (Muslim) Brotherhood needs to get off the streets and back into the political arena and fight your differences there, and we need to put Egypt back to work. If this continues, it's going to be a failed state. That's why we're going,” Graham added.

Remarks by McCain early in July might have prompted the president to include John McCain on the mission.

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[dionysus]

1. good , i hope they get lost and stay there.

[Scuba]

2. Good start, now sent Cantor and Ryan to Syria!

[leftstreet]

3. FFS I thought this was satire. McCain is senile

Good Godz! He'll probably ask to meet with King Tut

[MADem]

4. Oh dear...that's a headline ripe for amused commentary! nt

[Scootaloo]

5. It's a nice gesture, returning mummies to Egypt

Can't help but think there are other ancient artifacts that the Egyptians would prioritize ahead of these two, though

[Purveyor]

6. LOL, indeed. eom

[Ken Burch]

7. ...they won't be coming back, will they?

[Purveyor]

9. Of course they will. They will have a give Obama 'first hand details' at the White House...photo

op and all...

on both houses.

[zbdent]

8. "We parked the jet right here ..."

[Euphoria]

10. Besides the obvious comedy

of this request by Pres Obama, why the h@^> didn't he invite any Democrat Senators?

[kestrel91316]

11. .....where they do everything possible to sabotage the Obama Administration's

efforts.......

[spanone]

12. thank you mr President for getting those assholes out of the country

[NuclearDem]

13. Oh, sure, yeah, that'll send a nice message.

No, I mean these guys are the hawkish of the hawks when it comes to the Middle East. But no, I guess sending them into a volatile Middle Eastern country will turn out just splendid.