Mr. Scowcroft says a secure Egypt is important for the Middle East. Without a successful Egypt, he says, the area has a serious problem. Other observers agree. Mirette Mabrouk is with the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East.
“A stable, prosperous, if you like, but certainly stable and healthy Egypt is absolutely vital to the Middle East. Otherwise, frankly, no one would care. If Egypt were irrelevant, then people would not be paying attention. People pay attention because Egypt is vital.”
She and others say the United States and other countries should not get directly involved in Egypt and instead let the Egyptian political process take its course.
And that’s In The News from VOA Learning English. I’m Steve Ember.
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