“You left the Egyptians. You turned your back on the Egyptians, and they won’t forget that.”

Egypt’s commanding general suggested that if the United States wants to avoid further bloodshed in Egypt, it should persuade the Brotherhood to back down from the Cairo sit-ins it has maintained since July 3.

“The U.S. administration has a lot of leverage and influence with the Muslim Brotherhood, and I’d really like the U.S. administration to use this leverage with them to resolve the conflict,” Sissi said…

[I]n the interview, the 58-year-old Sissi was unsparing in his critique of the group, saying that Brotherhood members are more devoted to their Islamist beliefs than they are to Egypt. “The idea that gathers them together is not nationalism, it’s not patriotism, it is not a sense of a country,” he said…

“I expected if we didn’t intervene, it would have turned into a civil war,” he said.