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Imagine that. Did we just witness Barack Obama having a brief moment of partial lucidity from his four-year coma and actually acknowledge the blatantly obvious? It appears that way. The fact that he still doesn’t consider the new “destroy western civilization from within” leadership in Egypt an enemy, however, certainly exemplifies the blind naivete that continues to cloud the myopic, wishful thinking of the Obama Administration’s incompetent leadership …

Update: That brief moment of lucidity is now being “clarified” …

“President Barack Obama has said the United States does not currently consider Egypt to be an ally.

He was speaking with reference to violent clashes at the US embassy in Cairo, over a US-made anti-Islamic film which has sparked anger among Muslims.

His comments also came after the storming of the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which killed the US ambassador on Tuesday.

President Obama referred to US-Egypt relations as a ‘work in progress’.

‘I don’t think we would consider them an ally, but we don’t consider them an enemy. They are a new government that is trying to find its way,’ Mr Obama said in a television interview with Spanish-language network Telemundo.

He said that so far Egypt’s government has ‘said the right thing and taken the right steps’ but it has also responded to other events in ways that ‘may not be aligned with our interests’…

‘If they take actions that indicate they are not taking those responsibilities, as all other countries do where we have embassies, I think that’s going to be a problem,’ Mr Obama said.

Egypt was a close and vital Middle East ally of the United States while ousted President Hosni Mubarak was in power.

Cairo has been key US ally since 1979 Egypt-Israel peace deal, and the US gives more than $1bn in military aid to Egypt every year.

After last year’s uprising and the resurgence of the once-banned Muslim Brotherhood, question marks have been raised over the future of the relationship.” Read more.

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