Obama asks Senators McCain, Graham to visit Egypt and meet its military leaders and the opposition

[Cali_Democrat]

By Patricia Zengerle
WASHINGTON | Tue Jul 30, 2013 7:23pm EDT


(Reuters) - President Barack Obama has asked two senior Republican senators to travel to Egypt to meet with its military leaders and the opposition, as Cairo's allies struggle with how to address the turmoil convulsing the country.

Senator John McCain and Lindsey Graham, both members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, hope to travel to Egypt next week, Graham said on Tuesday.

"The president reached out to us, and I said obviously I'd be glad to go," Graham told reporters outside the Senate. "We want to deliver a unified message that killing the opposition is becoming more and more like a coup" and to encourage the military to move toward holding elections.

He said specifics of the trip, including with whom he and McCain would meet, had not yet been worked out.

McCain and Graham, two of the Senate's most influential voices on foreign policy matters, have at times been harsh critics of Obama's foreign policy. The White House has recently been reaching out to them on a range of issues.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/30/us-egypt-protests-usa-aid-idUSBRE96T1BN20130730

[Scuba]

1. Good idea. Send Boehner and Rand Paul to Syria too.

[think]

3. Get a group charter and send them all....

[notadmblnd]

5. ....

[joeybee12]

2. Great idea, since we know there are no Dems qualified...

And we want to keep appeasing these two old phuckwads as much as possible.

[cthulu2016]

4. This is meant as a demonstration, to Egypt, of American partisan unity on the point

A message to Egypt (whether accurate or not) that there are not two sides on the issue within the American foreign policy sphere to play against each other.

As such, it seems reasonable to me.

[msongs]

6. and don't let them come back nt