Appearing on the Fox News Channel’s “Fox and Friends,” Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said President Obama needed to study history in order to deal with the situation in which the Egyptian government has detained 19 Americans under house arrest.
“I think people need to look carefully at the Iranian hostage crisis and then this Egyptian government,” he told the host. “We’re goving them a billion dollars a year, and now they think we’re so weak that to appease their radicals they’ve locked up Americans.” He continued that President Obama “should not handle it the way Carter did, which was a case study in weakness.”
