Egypt Morsi: US seeks end to ex-president's detention
Source: BBC News
The US has called on Egypt's army to free deposed President Mohamed Morsi, amid ongoing protests on the first Friday of Ramadan.
The appeal echoed a similar call hours earlier from Germany.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23296463
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David__77
(24,728 posts)The protesters have accused the US of being biased toward Morsi and the brotherhood. It does seem to be so. If Morsi is guilty of crimes, he should be charged.
totodeinhere
(13,688 posts)But for now there is no justification for detaining him. Calling for his release does not show a bias.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)David__77
(24,728 posts)I agree completely.
karynnj
(60,967 posts)of the moderates.
Note that they are NOT saying that Morsi needs to be put back in power. You could actually make a case that that would be the reasonable action - and suggest that he be removed only by election or some kind of legal process. That there is NO talk of that suggests that the US - if anything - is biased against Morsi.
The real problem of the Obama administration is that there is an old law that says no aid to countries headed by someone who came to power in a coup. Yet, the main reason we give the aid to Egypt we do is for leverage with Egypt.
David__77
(24,728 posts)Obviously, it is. If I'm not mistaken, there is a loophole - that should be openly applied rather than attempt to avoid labeling it as a coup. I'd prefer that congress revoke that law entirely.
karynnj
(60,967 posts)is not calling it a coup.
I don't hope the Congress revokes the law - as it is really makes sense. What they can do is explicitly ask for an exception.
DCBob
(24,689 posts)If it was a true military coup they would have taken over completely and installed a military man as leader and taken over the media and the people would not be rallying and encouraging them to do what they did.
John2
(2,730 posts)mind his own business and let the Egyptian people solved their own problems. The rights of the Egyptian people is not the real reasons he wants to intefere in Egypt. It all goes back to what is good for Israel. That is whose pulling his strings. The Egyptian military needs to break their dependance on Foreign Governments because they want strings attached. They should tell Obama to go away.
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)"President," rather. He is still the democratically elected President of Egypt. His arrest and removal from the Presidential palace was thoroughly illegal. Don't take my word for it, ask Ban Ki Moon or the majority in the U. N. General Assembly.
John2
(2,730 posts)by whose standards? He is the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and one of their most important Allies calling for Jihad in Syria. Ban Ki Moon is another puppet. I hope you understand those dynamics. President Obama does not command the Egyptian military through bribes or anything else. The reason they removed Morsi, is because he threatens the rights of all Egyptians. I would remove his ass too, if I had the military power to do so. The people supporting the military agree with him. The U.S. State Department also tried to suppress demonstrations against him but organizations ignored them. The U.S. needs to stop intefering into their affairs. Morsi can participate in Democracy all he wants, with conditions set by the other side. Those conditions was as long as he stop trying to act like a dictator and oppressing the rights of other Egyptians. Since he can't abide by those rules, there is nothingelse the military can do but remove him by force. Isn't it obvious, when you got Israel trying to buy off the Egyptian military too through bribery.
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)Egyptian law. But it's also a standard of international legal norms that anyone who overthrows his own government by force is kind of like, you know, criminal.