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Champ finally stops punishing Egypt for overthrowing the Muslim Brotherhood's Morsi |
2015-04-01 |
Hissy fit ends. Contractors resume production as ValJar relents. Never mind that Morsi, during his exceptionally short 11-month tenure as president, tore up the old constitution and began replacing it with a strict Islamist document that would hurtle Egypt back through time, negating any progress in the area of human and equal rights. Nope. Obama and his crowd was not interested in punishing Morsi, an anti-West, anti-modernity Egyptian leader who had attained power through the revolutionary crucible of what was initially believed to be an "Arab spring." Instead, the U.S. punished the new democratically-elected leader, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, as his rise to power was via the military. Sisi's, unlike Morsi's, was not a pure people's revolutionary paroxysm and therefore was not embraced. The U.S. punished Egypt for this unacceptable folly by imposing an arms freeze. But on Tuesday, March 31, the White House announced that it was lifting that arms freeze. The U.S. removed its hold on the delivery of F-16 aircraft, Harpoon missiles and M1A1 tank kits, according to the New York Times. |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#7 Egypt has been a country, up, down and in between for several thousand years, it's what gives them the veneer at least of goto Arab. |
Posted by: Shipman 2015-04-01 18:37 |
#6 #3 General Dynamics Given Consensus Rating of “Buy” Veridian Dynamics is also a solid "Buy". I see a trend. As for al Sisi, I've been pleasantly surprised. Especially when it comes to Paleos. The fact that Champ hates him is unsurprising. Our Prez was on the wrong side in that Honduras thing, too. The economy is still a problem, but Egypt just might make it as a country. There was no such hope under Morsi. |
Posted by: SteveS 2015-04-01 12:42 |
#5 Something about needing 'help' in Yemen? Uhhhhhhh, yeahhhhhh. But it's so confusing the way Champ keeps bouncing back and forth between Iran and Soddy Arabia. Kinda looks like all the Soddy cash still has some influence. |
Posted by: Abu Uluque 2015-04-01 12:05 |
#4 Something about needing 'help' in Yemen? |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-04-01 09:37 |
#3 Entirely unrelated I'm sure. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2015-04-01 07:51 |
#2 These arms will be useful in attacking and defending frenemies of the US all over the Middle East. |
Posted by: Grunter 2015-04-01 07:29 |
#1 Perchance he was listening to his campaign contributors? |
Posted by: Bobby 2015-04-01 07:24 |