The one policy change that President Obama announced in his Thursday morning address on the violence in Egypt was to cancel a forthcoming military exercise with the Egyptian armed forces. The move is clearly meant to drive home the Obama administration’s condemnation of the military-led government’s recent steps, most notably its July 3 coup and its Wednesday crackdown on Islamist sit-ins, which claimed 525 lives. It’s also likely meant as a signal to the generals, who had ignored advance U.S. warnings against both the coup and the crackdown, that they better start listening to the United States.
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