U.S. Senator McCain, in Cairo, says Egypt near 'all-out bloodshed'

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

U.S. Senator McCain, in Cairo, says Egypt near 'all-out bloodshed'

WASHINGTON | Tue Aug 6, 2013 7:51pm EDT

(Reuters) - Unrest in Egypt could turn into "all-out bloodshed" in coming days if efforts to find a political solution fail, U.S. Senator John McCain warned on Tuesday during a visit to Cairo.

"Oh my God, I didn't know it was this bad. These folks are just days or weeks away from all-out bloodshed," McCain said during an interview in Cairo with "CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley."

McCain and fellow Republican Senator Lindsey Graham met with Egypt's new rulers as reports said the country's military-installed government could soon announce that foreign efforts to mediate a peaceful end to the country's political crisis were collapsing.

An Egyptian army takeover of the country on July 3 has led to violent confrontations between military forces and backers of overthrown President Mohamed Mursi.

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[TwilightGardener]

1. McCain and Goober suggest American boots on the ground in Egypt in 4...3...2...1...

Soon as they're finished up in Syria, of course.

[MrSlayer]

2. It's sad but ultimately not our problem.

Nothing we can do about it. Nothing we should do about it. Let people figure it out for themselves.

[delrem]

3. McCain and Graham are imbeciles.

[SamKnause]

4. Egypt

Who was the imbecile that sent them to Egypt ?

[delrem]

5. I'm curious (and ignorant), were they an official US delegation?

Because these guys made their bones proving that they are imbeciles.

So who did send them to Egypt?

[delrem]

6. Oh shit. I just googled the answer.

so.... fucking.... predictable. that it hurts.

[murielm99]

7. Why didn't the President just not answer them,

or tell them that any visit of theirs was not official, not sanctioned by the administration?

Congress is unpopular enough that he could have ignored them.

[delrem]

8. I have no idea. I don't understand the US president.

Very little of what he does makes sense to me and so much contradicts his rhetoric that I don't think I even want to understand any more.
I just hope the left, the middle and progressive left, starts *right now* to primary the right-wingnuts in the Dem party. It MUST be done. Also I'd like the progressive caucus to fucking stand up and not allow themselves to be marginalized. To stand their ground. And so on, because the right turn of the Dem party is now so way way way beyond the pale it no longer makes sense

[murielm99]

9. It makes me angry, too.

I think that there are many times that Obama is weak. He forgets that he has a mandate! All that bipartisan shit only hurt us.

I do understand that in some locations, the Democrats have to be more to the right. They would not get elected otherwise. However they do caucus with the other Democrats, and can vote with them on important issues. Those are just the realities.

The Congressional Black Caucus seems to be the only group standing up for Democratic values. We do indeed need to curb this turn to the right. But it needs to start with Obama.