With raging political unrest in the country of Egypt, the United States is trying to stay true to it's foreign policy which it has held for 30 years.
A rival of Mubarak, Mohamed ElBaradei, has told the U.S. that they should let go off their long-time ally or friend. Regardless of who is in power, I feel it is extremely important to understand and befriend them as we have before.
The U.S. Men's National Soccer team had a game scheduled in Cairo, Egypt that had recently been canceled because of this dilemma.
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