Obama Says Egypt Neither Ally Nor Enemy

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Obama Says Egypt Neither Ally Nor Enemy

Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images President Obama says the U.S. would no longer consider the Egyptian government an ally, “but we don’t consider them an enemy.” In an interview with the Spanish-language...

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President Obama says the U.S. would no longer consider the Egyptian government an ally, “but we don’t consider them an enemy.”

In an interview with the Spanish-language network Telemundo, less than 24 hours after violent mobs stormed American diplomatic outposts in Cairo and Benghazi, Libya, Obama said the new Muslim Brotherhood leadership in Egypt was still “trying to find its way.”

“They were democratically elected. I think we are going to have to see how they respond to this incident, to see how they respond to maintaining the peace treaty with Israel,” he said.