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ThatDamnedPanda -> RE: What is the Muslim Brotherhood (2/12/2011 8:58:39 AM)
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ORIGINAL: popeye1250
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ORIGINAL: ThatDamnedPanda
The money we sent to Egypt was not "stolen." Our government knew exactly what was happening to it, and who it was that was happening it. As far as they were concerned, we were getting exactly what we were paying for - a powerful, relatively stable, secular Islamic nation that was pro-American and on reasonably amicable terms with Israel. I'm not defending the reasoning behind it, but I am saying that was what we were buying all those years, and our government was more than happy to mail off the check every January 1st. Whose bank account it wound up in, they couldn't have cared less.
Panda, you bolstered my point. That's exactly why we need to end all foreign aid.
Exactly how much was Mubarak's salary as president for life that he could amass $50-$70 Billion?
And how incompetant are and were the people in our govt to let this knowingly go on?
If you or I worked for a company and knowingly let something similar happen we'd be fired and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Pops, I think you're missing my point. It doesn't have anything to do with competence. They didn't fuck up; they knew exactly what they were doing. The main purpose of foreign aid is to keep governments that are friendly to us strong and stable, particularly in strategically important regions of the globe - like the Middle East. The reason we gave Egypt that money was to keep Mubarak in power, plain and simple, and it worked for 30 years.
I'm not defending the practice (or our choice of friends), but from a purely practical standpoint, the money we gave to Egypt was very well-spent, because the United States has benefited greatly from the presence of the Mubarak government over the decades.
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