US ‘Aid’ Destroys Egypt’s Economy, Democracy

[Sunni Man]

American President Obama says he deplores the Egyptian junta’s decision to massacre peaceful protesters and declare martial law.

If he deplores it so much, why is he paying for it?

It is no secret that Egyptian strongman el-Sisi and the soldiers he is sending to slaughter protesters are on the US payroll.

According to official estimates, US taxpayers give the Egyptian military 1.3 billion dollars per year in direct military aid. When various forms of indirect aid are taken into account, including money from US puppet states in the Persian Gulf, the real annual total is in the billions.

This lavish US funding has allowed Egypt’s military to balloon into a monster that controls between one-quarter and one-third of the Egyptian economy. That is why Egypt is economically moribund.

US military aid has not only crippled Egypt’s economy, but has also killed Egyptian democracy.

US aid has created a parasitical “deep state” consisting of military officers and their friends.

These people run Egypt from behind the scenes. Mubarak was their figurehead. When Mubarak was overthrown and the Egyptian people elected Islamic activists to parliament and the presidency, the deep state and its foreign backers felt threatened. So they sabotaged Egypt’s economy, saturated the public with anti-Morsi propaganda, and engineered the coup d’état.

If Obama simply called the coup what it is – a coup – US law would automatically trigger a suspension of military aid. Why has Obama decided to lie and pretend that a coup is not a coup? Why does he insist on maintaining US funding for Egypt’s brutal dictatorship?

The answer, in one word, is “Israel.”

The Zionists know that if real democracy is established in Egypt, the Egyptian people will vote to revoke the Camp David “surrender treaty” and support the Palestinian resistance.

And they know that if Egypt’s economy succeeds, Israel will never achieve its long term objective: Stealing all of the land between the Nile and the Euphrates.

So the Zionist-dominated USA will continue to offer lip service to democracy – while paying the Egyptian junta, and other puppet regimes, to destroy it.

US ?Aid? Destroys Egypt?s Economy, Democracy | Veterans Today

 

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... and the muslim brotherhood is getting it's butt kicked... boo - fucking - hoo.

Go pound sand.

 

[Moonglow]

Why does everyone want to blame their problems on the US and the President, no dog at home to kick?
The members of Congress are the ones to say yes or no to foreign aid, and it is chaired by GOP members. McCain and Graham are the ones on the committee and they support the Muslim Brotherhood because they think they are moderates.

 

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American President Obama says he deplores the Egyptian junta’s decision to massacre peaceful protesters and declare martial law.

If he deplores it so much, why is he paying for it?

It is no secret that Egyptian strongman el-Sisi and the soldiers he is sending to slaughter protesters are on the US payroll.

According to official estimates, US taxpayers give the Egyptian military 1.3 billion dollars per year in direct military aid. When various forms of indirect aid are taken into account, including money from US puppet states in the Persian Gulf, the real annual total is in the billions.

This lavish US funding has allowed Egypt’s military to balloon into a monster that controls between one-quarter and one-third of the Egyptian economy. That is why Egypt is economically moribund.

US military aid has not only crippled Egypt’s economy, but has also killed Egyptian democracy.

US aid has created a parasitical “deep state” consisting of military officers and their friends.

These people run Egypt from behind the scenes. Mubarak was their figurehead. When Mubarak was overthrown and the Egyptian people elected Islamic activists to parliament and the presidency, the deep state and its foreign backers felt threatened. So they sabotaged Egypt’s economy, saturated the public with anti-Morsi propaganda, and engineered the coup d’état.

If Obama simply called the coup what it is – a coup – US law would automatically trigger a suspension of military aid. Why has Obama decided to lie and pretend that a coup is not a coup? Why does he insist on maintaining US funding for Egypt’s brutal dictatorship?

The answer, in one word, is “Israel.”

The Zionists know that if real democracy is established in Egypt, the Egyptian people will vote to revoke the Camp David “surrender treaty” and support the Palestinian resistance.

And they know that if Egypt’s economy succeeds, Israel will never achieve its long term objective: Stealing all of the land between the Nile and the Euphrates.

So the Zionist-dominated USA will continue to offer lip service to democracy – while paying the Egyptian junta, and other puppet regimes, to destroy it.

US ?Aid? Destroys Egypt?s Economy, Democracy | Veterans Today

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Report: US quietly suspends some Egyptian military aid...

White House denies reports of suspended Egypt aid as ‘incorrect’
8/20/13 > The White House on Tuesday denied reports that it had quietly suspended some U.S. military aid to Egypt amid mounting violence as “incorrect.”

“The report that we have suspended assistance to Egypt is incorrect,” National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said in a statement. “As the president has said, we are reviewing all of our assistance to Egypt. No policy decisions have been made at this point regarding the remaining assistance,” she added. The statement followed a story in the Daily Beast late Monday which reported that the U.S. government had privately decided to move ahead and halt some military assistance for Cairo as punishment for a bloody crackdown on protesters.

While the administration has refused to publicly label the military takeover last month as a “coup,” which would trigger a complete halt in all aid, a spokesman for Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) told the Daily Beast that some direct military aid, weaponry, as well as economic assistance was being temporarily delayed. The spokesman for Leahy, head of the Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations, told CNN that the U.S. is “reprogramming” Egypt funds, while continuing to review the situation. The aide though cautioned that there has been no final decision on permanently cutting off aid to Egypt.

Once a decision has been made about whether to cut off further aid, the administration will reach out to Congress on how to press forward, the official added. The report followed a week of mounting violence in Egypt after military rulers cracked down on Islamist supporters of deposed democratically-elected President Mohamed Morsi. Reports said hundreds, on both sides, have been killed in clashes. The White House said on Monday that it was evaluating aid to Egypt, even as pressure mounted on Capitol Hill for the U.S. to suspend all assistance.

Top GOP lawmakers including Sens. John McCain (Ariz.), Rand Paul (Ky.) and Bob Corker (Tenn.) have called for the administration to immediately halt all aid, urging the White House to take a tough line with Cairo. The administration though has been cautious about designating Egypt a coup or publicly limiting aid, for fear of losing leverage. Reports also suggested that Egypt’s Arab allies would step up to cover any shortfall from American aid. White House spokesman Josh Earnest pressed Egypt’s leaders on Monday to “transition back to a democratically elected government.”

Read more: White House denies reports of suspended Egypt aid as ?incorrect? - The Hill's Global Affairs

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Conservatives Split Over Continuing U.S. Military Aid to Egypt
August 21, 2013 – As administration officials mull a response to the turmoil in Egypt, conservative foreign policy experts and commentators remain divided over the question of U.S. aid and how to deal with the military following its takeover and the recent bloodshed.

Those who favor continuing aid cite the need to protect key U.S. regional interests, topped by a secure Suez Canal and the Egypt-Israel peace treaty – interests more likely to be safeguarded by the Egyptian military than the Muslim Brotherhood administration it overthrew on July 3. Closely linked to this is the view that the aid – more than $70 billion between 1948 and 2011, according to the Congressional Research Service – has afforded the U.S. crucial leverage with the leadership in Cairo, and will continue to do so. Proponents of retaining the financial support include those who argue that while neither side of the Egyptian divide is close to ideal, the military and the interim government it installed are a better option than a return of the Muslim Brotherhood. “Politics in Egypt today is a zero-sum game: Either the military wins, or the Brotherhood does,” Wall Street Journal deputy editorial page editor Bret Stephens wrote on Monday. “If the U.S. wants influence, it needs to hold its nose and take a side.”

Some experts who favor continued aid draw parallels with the Cold War, when the U.S. at times chose to side with distasteful regimes in a bid to counter communism. “Look, this is an old issue – we faced this in the Cold War,” political commentator and syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer told Fox News. “On one side, we have an army coup, on the other side, a far-left government tending towards to totalitarianism. These are choices that we have to make. There are always, you know – the choice of the better of the two evils.” Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and American Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow John Bolton said there is no reason why the U.S. should push for Egyptian authorities to include the Muslim Brotherhood in the political process. “After World War II, we struggled without qualms to keep Communist parties from prevailing in Western European elections; there is every reason to take the same role here,” he wrote in a column last week. “What is happening in Egypt now is not pretty,” Bolton conceded. “We should take care that our efforts to improve things don’t make them worse, disrupting our larger regional and worldwide interests.”

Writing on Townhall, Hoover Institute senior fellow Thomas Sowell warned that conservatives calling for an end to U.S. aid to Egypt were “playing with fire.” “Barack Obama’s Middle East interventions have replaced stable and neutral despots in Egypt and Libya with anti-Western despots and chaos. Such is the price of pursuing ideological mirages,” he said. “After contributing to the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood to power, and the disastrous aftermath of that, the Obama administration is now publicly lecturing Egyptian leaders, and trying to micro-manage them from thousands of miles away. And some conservatives are joining the Quixotic chorus, playing with fire.”

James Jay Carafano, vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at the Heritage Foundation, wrote in a column that a “compelling case” to end aid could have been made during Morsi’s tenure, as he moved to Islamicize the country. “But with Morsi out of the picture, Egypt now has a ‘do-over’ in its quest for freedom, peace and prosperity. America should support a second chance for Egyptians.” Citing U.S. law stipulating that aid should end in the event of a military coup, Carafano said the administration should respect it and ask Congress for an extension of aid. Authorizing legislation should make the aid conditional on such steps as respecting the peace treaty with Israel, re-establishing civilian rule and safeguarding human rights.

What leverage?