A former Egyptian foreign minister has some scathing words for the United States and its foreign policy.
Nabil Fahmy, who also served as Egyptian Ambassador to the United States, said in a recent interview on Egyptian television that “the Americans have not appropriately learned the lesson of dealing with terrorism,” according to Egyptian publication Al-Masry al-Youm.
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Fahmy also expressed concern that the U.S. “contacted us constantly in order to integrate streams of political Islam into the political process.”
State Department Deputy Spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters in March that the U.S. regularly keeps contact with the Muslim Brotherhood; and according to The Washington Free Beacon, the White House hosted a member of its organization in January.
Fahmy also told the Al-Masry al-Youm that Egyptian President Abdel Fattal al-Sisi would speak this month at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly session in New York City. al-Sisi was elected in May, after the Egyptian military seized control of the government in July 2013 from the Muslim Brotherhood backed Mohammed Morsi.
Morsi was elected as president of Egypt in August of 2012 after the “Arab Spring” and served for nearly a year, alienating the Egyptian people, the judiciary, and even his own advisors.
In June, Secretary of State John Kerry announced that the U.S. would be sending $575 million to Egypt.  This is part of a $1.5 billion deal that has been in place since Egypt struck a peace deal with Israel in 1979, and also pledged to send 10 Apache attack helicopters for the purpose of fighting militants in the Sinai peninsula. The U.S. froze funding in October of last year.
H/T The Conservative Treehouse
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