
“Republicans also voiced strong support for Egypt’s military, whose close ties to Washington stretch back to the 1979 Israeli-Egypt peace accords. ‘The Egyptian military has long been a key partner of the United States and a stabilizing force in the region, and is perhaps the only trusted national institution in Egypt today,’ said U.S. Representative Eric Cantor, the No. 2 Republican in the House. ‘Democracy is about more than elections,’ he said.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/04/when-is-a-coup-not-a-coup/
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