The American taxpayer is not an ATM for Egypt
As the chaos continues in Egypt, there’s a particularly troublesome development that should raise the concern of all sides in this debate.
In the midst of turmoil, uncertainty, and continuing violence, the Obama administration now says it plans to send in the weeks ahead the latest shipment of high-tech U.S. F-16s to Egypt, as part of our $1.3 billion dollar-a-year gift of military aid – a move that even the liberal editorial page of the New York Times calls “provocative.”
In addition to the fighter jets, the U.S. is supplying state-of-the-art tanks to Egypt. All of this weaponry is now in the hands of...who knows?
We do know that the radical Islamists who governed the country until this uprising are hostile to America and to our allies. Who ends up governing – and in control of the U.S. supplied weapons – is still very much uncertain. . . .