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The MB in the wake of the "Arab Spring" were given a chance for one year to rule Egypt for the USA....they failed for a variety of reasons.
So the USA, called back the old guard.
Egypt with a population of 85 million; the most powerful Arab power; cultural leader of the Arab world; neighbor of Israel; security guarantor for the GCC; Isn't Egypt a historically important country for the world? Aliens from outer space use the Pyramids as a guide vortex into earth........was too important to be run by the incapable, and inexperienced MB. MB members and Israeli Zealots for different reasons hate Egypts pre-Islamic history.
Israel played a role in their ouster.
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Top ten reasons Washington’s Egypt aid continues
By Professor Juan Cole, at Presstv.com and Informed Comment
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80 people died in violence in Egypt on Friday, as Muslim Brotherhood
crowds protested the military crackdown on their sit-ins that cost
hundreds of lives this week. Some of the violence resulted from police
heavy-handedness, some from an armed Brotherhood attack on a police
station.
The continued unrest upped the pressure on the Obama administration to cut off military aid to Egypt. It is the only legal and ethical thing to do, but here are some reasons it has been difficult for Washington to take that step.
1. The US doesn’t give much aid to the Egyptian people per se. Only $250 million a year out of $1.55 billion is civilian. The aid is to cement a relationship between the Egyptian officer corps and the Pentagon.(Pakistan)
2. The military aid, $1.3 billion a year, is mostly in-kind, a grant of weaponry. It must be spent on US weapons manufacturers. It is US arms manufacturers like Lockheed-Martin and General Dynamics (and their employees) who would suffer if it were cut off.
3. The Congress gave the Egyptian Generals a credit card to buy weapons, and they’ve run up $3 billion on it for F-16s and M1A1 tanks. If the US cancelled aid, the US government would still have to pick up that bill. (Well prof if we say that military aid started from 1978, the year Camp David Peace agreement was signed....then the total aggregate USA military 'aid' to Egypt since 1978-2013 could be $50--70 billion in real terms...basically retooling the entire Egyptian military away from Soviet to USA arms and training...WHAT A WASTE....THE USA, greatest nation on earth with so much wealth, and with so much to offer, pours military hardware into an ancient civilisation of 5500 years old, and the most important Arab power.)
4. Even most of the civilian aid is required to be spent on US goods and materiel. It is corporate welfare for the US.
5. The aid was given as a bribe to the Egyptian elite to make nice with Israel. Given the chaos in Sinai, and Egypt’s instability, Congress is more worried about that issue than at any time in 40 years. (Well thats one interpretation prof...The mainly military aid was given by St. Jimmy to bring peace in the Middle East....OK not bad, and has been successful in this area, and the Egyptian military were seen as the main power brokers in Egypt so to please them, the Americans gave them military aid mostly, and nothing for the poverty stricken poor Egyptians.....save for some wheat)
6. The Israelis asked the US not to suspend the aid.
7. Congress even structured the economic aid to require some of it help joint Israeli-Egyptian enterprises in Egypt, so some of the aid to Egypt actually goes to . . . Israel.
8. It is not generally recognized, but the Egyptian military provides a “security umbrella” to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the UAE against Iran (and sometimes Iraq). The Persian Gulf oil states also have powerful Washington lobbies and want Egypt to continue as a Gurkha force. Children, can you say oil?( Children can you say Israel and AIPAC?)
9. Many in Congress don’t actually disagree with the generals’ actions in overthrowing the Muslim Brotherhood-backed Freedom and Justice Party and driving it underground, since they agree it is a terrorist organization.
10. Behind the scenes Egyptian military intelligence has helped the US track down 'extremists' and in the Mubarak era ran black sites where they tortured suspected al-Qaeda for Washington. The US deep state would like to ramp that relationship back up, AGAIN.
11. USA open access to the Suez Canal...and a friendly power.
12. Egypt with a population of 85 million is the most important Arab power, with the biggest population and economy $500 billion PPP.
13. It is an ancient civilization dating back 5500 years....and is a center of much interest among American Egyptology, culture and media.
14. The USA has been on a course for empire since 1898. Egypt the vassal American state plays a pivotal role for the USA EMPIRE......in North Africa, and the Middle East generally, as a USA proxy power.
15. It is possible that the Pyramids are used as alien vortex systems through which extraterrestrials are guided into and out of earth for observation purposes.
