Legal Commentary

What Obama ought say to Egypt

By Beldar

Obama should say ? right away, and bluntly ? ?Lest there be a miscalculation from uncertainty about America?s position, Egypt should know that the day the Muslim Brotherhood becomes part of Egypt?s government is the day American foreign aid ends.?

But he won?t.

When Obama fails to do this, should then Boehner, as Speaker, say "I predict that the House won't appropriate money for foreign aid to Egypt if the Muslim Brotherhood is part of the government"?

I think so. I think it would be a truthful prediction that would likely prove accurate. And it's within Boehner's institutional province so long as it's carefully phrased. But Boehner should privately twist Obama's arm first, to give him the opportunity to speak for America as its chief of state.

Full post as published by BeldarBlog on February 11, 2011 (boomark / email).