US cuts aid to Egypt
The Washington Times reports that the State Department has decided to temporarily cut some military aid to Egypt;
Foreign ministry spokesman Badr Abdelatty said Egypt would “not surrender to American pressure and is continuing on its path toward democracy,” in the BBC.
His statements came as U.S. authorities announced they would not deliver promised Apache helicopters, Harpoon missiles or tank parts — or a $260 million cash transfer and $300 million loan guarantee.
The State Department rushed to say the suspension was only that — temporary.
While I agree that we should start cutting aid to a lot of countries, not just Egypt, but I’m just curious why the Obama Administration wouldn’t cut military aid to Morsi government while they presided over widespread violence in the country, too. In fact, they were adamant about continuing military equipment aid to the Muslim Brotherhood government. But now that the Muslim brotherhood has been removed from the government, the administration thinks it’ perfectly fine to cut off aid. It almost seems that the Obama Administration is trying to undermine the legitimacy of the new Egyptian government.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Foreign Policy
I’m just curious why the Obama Administration wouldn’t cut military aid to Morsi government while they presided over widespread violence in the country, too.
Remember, these are the same clowns who wanted to arm the Syrian rebels.
They’re clowns, but at least they’re consistent. Sorta.
Do I detect flaws in da Masster Plannn?
Talk about your monstrous Charlie Foxtrot….This administration couldn’t find it’s own ass while sitting on their hands….
When the Obama Admin decided that its demands of Mubarrak to abdicate were falling on deaf ears, it was the same Egyptian Military that it turned to, and asked the same Generals to force (coup d’état) Mubarrak out. It was one of the parallels between 1978 Iran and 2011 Egypt.
When the Muslim Brotherhood’s Egyptian Constitution deemed women’s rights and non-Muslim rights were subservient to Sharia Law and when their president, Morsi, deemed treaties with Israel voidable, and Iran worthy of service through the Suez canal (en route to Syria), Obama decided that Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood govt should get F-16’s promised Mubarrak.
While the Islamists in Egypt burned down churches and murdered Coptic Christians in the streets, Obama said nothing, but this was consistent with his policy when Iranian Islamists were shooting protestors in the streets: he said nothing.
When the Syrian uprising was primarily pro-democracy protestors being murdered in the streets: Obama said nothing. When the tide turned and Islamists had seized control of rebel factions, Obama armed them through surrogates in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere. When the Islamists in Syria gained greater control, he called for more direct US support.
There is a consistency in Obama’s Middle East policy. It just isn’t one any American wishes to acknowledge. That policy is silence when democratic, secular forces or minority religious individuals are being killed in the streets. That policy varies in support from moral and verbal to covert arms shipments to direct, overt support when the Islamists have the upper hand.
The US President stands by with his thumb where it shouldn’t be, while Mubarak leaves office and the MB takes over and starts killing people and wrecking the civil institutions. The entire country turns out to peacefully demand the MB’s ouster, and the Egyptian army acts as a respectful broker and peacefully deposes an evil regime, the supporters of which then make good on their threats to step up their efforts to murder their neighbors.
THEN the US cuts aid to Egypt.
Smart Power, in all its glory. /s
This president stands for nothing. That makes his foreign policy dangerous because even though all the confusing shit that comes out of D.C. these days may be hard for our enemies to decipher, it is even harder for our friends to figure out. And that is not good.
There is no strategic goal in mind that I can figure out. Just run from one crisis to the next with no consistency.
Now I could give a shit less personally if we arm the Egyptians or not, but don’t you think that our foreign policy guru’s who deal with all of these peckerheads should have a plan in place and some sound reasoning for the decisions that they make. I do not get a sense that is the case with this administration.
From what I can tell, the modus operandi of the Obama administration is to cowtow to our enemies (Iran, Russia, Syria) and ignore and belittle our our friends (Israel, Great Britain) and then just fuck over everyone else, the length and depth of the fucking dependent on factors known only to administration officials.
I think a clear indication of Obama’s laser like focus on foreign affairs can be summed up by looking at our two Secretaries of State. Hillary Clinton, who did nothing but attempt to bolster her resume until she killed Christopher Stevens in Benghazi and John “Reporting for Duty” Kerry whose crowning achievement will likely be getting us into a shooting war somewhere really, really shitty.
Don’t try to make sense of what any of this means. I don’t think anyone at the State Department knows and if they fuck it up (which is inevitable), they will just blame Bush.
More grade school hissy fits from the Obama Brotherhood.