georgephillip
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Egyptian eyewitnesses have reported roof-top snipers targeting wounded civilians seeking medical treatment after Egypt's army cleared the camps of Muslim Brotherhood supporters in violence that is ongoing.
Who paid for the snipers' bullets?
"Similarly, Human Rights First argues that the U.S. should make its aid conditional on a transition to an elected government in Egypt, citing failed diplomatic efforts to move the country away from the interim government of the military.
"At Businessweek, Romesh Ratnesar said that the U.S.'s refusal to cut off aid means that the U.S. is effectively propping up a regime 'that openly disdains basic democratic principles and human rights.'
"Ali Gharib at The Daily Beast wrote that 'America funds an army that today carried out a massacre of its own citizens.'
The U.S. Still Isn't Ready To Cut Its Aid to Egypt - Abby Ohlheiser - The Atlantic Wire
force is the only way to suppress the Muslim Brotherhood...the Brotherhood never compromises....they do not believe in any form of democracy but only in backward Islamic Sharia theocratic rule......suppression of the Brotherhood is what worked in Egypt's past and which brought peace and prosperity...
the army isn't going to listen to Obama because he's donating 1.5 billion......other countries in the ME have already pledged way more help....like 12 billion....evidently the Brotherhood is not all that popular in many Arab states...Obama is only continuing the support probably because it's a drop in the bucket and he figures it's safer to play both sides.....considering the Egyptian people are not exactly going to lay down for his precious Hoodies....
U.S. aid to Egypt was formally put under review Thursday in the wake of last weeks military-backed power shift as Arab nations rushed to pledge $12 billion to the country's new government.
US reviews Egypt aid as Arab nations pour $12 billion into post-Morsi regime - World News
The collapsing global economy where the poor are given a choice between subjugation, starvation, or a sniper's bullet on the way to the emergency room is being previewed in Egypt today. The appointed Egyptian president, Adli Mansour, serves as a fig leaf for a military-led government presided over by a dictator named Gen. Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi whose curfew and state of emergency will not soon be lifted.
Chris Hedges:
"The lifeblood of radical movements is martyrdom. The Egyptian military has provided an ample supply. The faces and the names of the sanctified dead will be used by enraged clerics to call for holy vengeance.
"And as violence grows and the lists of martyrs expand, a war will be ignited that will tear Egypt apart. Police, Coptic Christians, secularists, Westerners, businesses, banks, the tourism industry and the military will become targets.
"Those radical Islamists who were persuaded by the Muslim Brotherhood that electoral politics could work and brought into the system will go back underground, and many of the rank and file of the Muslim Brotherhood will join them. Crude bombs will be set off.
"Random attacks and assassinations by gunmen will puncture daily life in Egypt as they did in the 1990s when I was in Cairo for The New York Times, although this time the attacks will be wider and more fierce, far harder to control or ultimately crush."
Chris Hedges: Murdering the Wretched of the Earth - Chris Hedges' Columns - Truthdig
Rich generals are the cause of Egypt's problems, just as they are in those Arab states who are pledging $12 billion to win the class war on the Nile.