Egypt, Obama, Kerry and Morsi

The coup in Egypt has become violent. Surprise, surprise. Armored personnel carriers clashed with pro-Morsi protesters. Soldiers fired on the crowd and three were killed along with many injuries. Pro-Morsi TV stations were shut down--Chris Matthews was appalled. In Cairo's Tahrir Square, the military broke up fights between pro-Morsi and anti-Morsi protesters. Obama's response to the violence was to calm things down with a round of golf while John Kerry took a strategic float on his yacht.  


Obama refuses to call the Egyptian action a coup, in part because the word is French and he'll be damned if he's going to bow to them (he saves his bowing for King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia) and also because he wants the latitude to send money to the Egyptian Army in order to keep them happy in spite of the fact that the doors to the "People's House (that's the White House for those of you who are clueless) are currently closed due to sequestration. Obama has just returned from a $100M vacation in South Africa, where he visited his birthplace and mosque.  

My latest novel, Jihad Joe, is about Islamic terrorism and suspense.  In it I challenge the precepts of the religion through my protagonist, Zed Nill, a journalist, captured by terrorists and who is destined to be killed if the American President refuses to release three Gitmo prisoners.  Of course, American policy demands we never give in to terrorists, and for Zed, the clock is ticking.

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