Obama asks Republican senators to visit Egypt

[cali]

Why no Dem Senators? This is a vitally important issue. Hell, it's a damned crisis. I don't have a problem with a bi-partisan delegation but just McNuts and Lame Graham? What the hay? The endless reach out to republicans on everything is puzzling.

Barack Obama, the US president, 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.

The invite, announced on Tuesday, came amid a visit to the Arab world's most populous nation by Catherine Ashton, the European Union foreign policy chief, who met with the deposed president Mohamed Morsi in his first known contact with the outside world since he was toppled by the army earlier this month.

"The president asked ... [John] McCain and myself to go to Egypt next week, so we're trying to find a way to get there," Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said.

He said the pair wanted to "go over and reinforce in a bipartisan fashion the message that we have to move to civilian control, that the military is going to have to, you know, allow the country to have new elections and move toward an inclusive, democratic approach".

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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/07/201373145634668576.html

[dipsydoodle]

1. so we're trying to find a way to get there ?

Broadly speaking from the US you fly east. If push comes to shove you then find the Italian NATO base which is here in Naples https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF-8&q=nato+base+italy+naples&fb=1&gl=uk&hq=nato+base+italy+naples&hnear=nato+base+italy+naples&cid=0,0,8799876628234817643&ei=xDT6UajbHci-0QXO74HAAw&ved=0CI4BEPwSMAs Then get a boat across to Egypt and look for the pyramids which are on the edge of Cairo.



I'm aware who the military are. I assume the opposition to refer to those who don't recognise democratic elections such as those that put Morsi into power.