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US scraps Egypt military drill

Pressure mounts on Washington to suspend military aid

AFP, Chilmark
President Barack Obama yesterday said the United States has canceled military exercises with Egypt to protest the killing of hundreds of protesters.
Obama urged Egypt's army-installed authorities to lift a state of emergency and allow peaceful protests but stopped short of suspending $1.3 billion in annual military aid.
"While we want to sustain our relationship with Egypt, our traditional cooperation cannot continue as usual when civilians are being killed in the streets and rights are being rolled back," Obama told reporters at his vacation home on Martha's Vineyard.
Obama said the United States informed Egypt it was suspending the Bright Star exercises, which has been scheduled every two years since 1981.
The exercises were also called off in 2011 as Egypt was in the throes of the revolt that overthrew longtimestrongman Hosni Mubarak, a close US ally.
Egypt has been in turmoil since, with the army on July 3 ousting the country's first democratically elected president, the Islamist Mohamed Morsi.
More than 500 people have died since Wednesday when Egyptian security forces, defying appeals for restraint by the United States and other powers, crushed pro-Morsi demonstrations.
The United States has carefully avoided calling Morsi's ouster a coup, a designation that would require the United States to cut assistance.
Obama said that Morsi was “not inclusive" and that ■perhaps even a majority" of Egyptians opposed the Muslim Brotherhood leader.
Analysts said that the response from Washington fitted a pattern of weak statements that had allowed the Egyptian military to act with impunity. "[The] US had several chances to demonstrate [that] its threats to suspend aid were credible, but each time backed down," tweeted the Brookings Institution expert Shadi Hamid. "That policy has a price." Hamid also told al-Jazeera TV: "Clearing all the sit-ins without addressing fundamental political issues won't stop the clashes."
Marc Lynch commented in Foreign Policy: "It's time for Washington to stop pretending. Its efforts to maintain its lines of communication with the Egyptian military, quietly mediate the crisis and help lay the groundwork for some new, democratic political process have utterly failed. Egypt's new military regime, and a sizable and vocal portion of the Egyptian population, have made it very clear that they just want the United States to leave it alone.
For once, Washington should give them their wish. As long as Egypt remains on its current path, the Obama administration should suspend all aid, keep the embassy in Cairo closed, and refrain from treating the military regime as a legitimate government.