A 36-foot tall statue of Ramses II greets visitors as the enter the new Grand Egyptian Museum outside Cairo.

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Senior career diplomats at the U.S. State Department are effectively being forced into retirement. It’s a loss of talent that one former diplomat calls a “unilateral disarmament”. 

 And we visit the new Grand Egyptian Museum outside Cairo, which was more than 30 years in the making.