I don't think that making colossal mistakes like Obama giving more than a billion in mad-money to the Muslim Brotherhood maniacs in Egypt helps matters.
The issues of taking military action against them, and where, and with whom, and for how long is a huge point of contention, and rightly so.
But just having the US stop directly subsidizing this should be non-controversial. A no brainer.
War use to be wages against a government. You can topple a government. Now, wars, at least our recent ones, are against ideas. You don't defeat an idea with guns and bombs.
I largely agree with all of you guys. But I certainly wasn't opposed to blowing up those terrorist training camps and putting a bullet in bin Laden's slanthead.
"In fact, the aid package was for the nation of Egypt, not the Brotherhood. The Brotherhood may control the largest bloc of seats in parliament, but it's not even a majority. Not only that, the country itself continues, for now at least, to be controlled by the military. And more than 80 percent of the aid package is military aid."
Politifact sometimes is wrong. Here they are erroneous to claim some sort of difference between directly giving to dictators and giving to a government controlled by dictators.
The over a billion given to Egypt should have stopped as soon as the maniac terrorists took it over.
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Prepare for the coming cultural clash, it will be epic.
Just what the MIC salivate over.
Follow the money.
I don't think that making colossal mistakes like Obama giving more than a billion in mad-money to the Muslim Brotherhood maniacs in Egypt helps matters.
The issues of taking military action against them, and where, and with whom, and for how long is a huge point of contention, and rightly so.
But just having the US stop directly subsidizing this should be non-controversial. A no brainer.
War use to be wages against a government. You can topple a government. Now, wars, at least our recent ones, are against ideas. You don't defeat an idea with guns and bombs.
I largely agree with all of you guys. But I certainly wasn't opposed to blowing up those terrorist training camps and putting a bullet in bin Laden's slanthead.
Interesting, Jerry... When was the turning point? Around WW2?
Once again, dmarks, you are off the mark. The billion [and a half] went to the Egyptian government.
According to PolitiFact,
"In fact, the aid package was for the nation of Egypt, not the Brotherhood. The Brotherhood may control the largest bloc of seats in parliament, but it's not even a majority. Not only that, the country itself continues, for now at least, to be controlled by the military. And more than 80 percent of the aid package is military aid."
Once again, Jerry, I was dead on.
Politifact sometimes is wrong. Here they are erroneous to claim some sort of difference between directly giving to dictators and giving to a government controlled by dictators.
The over a billion given to Egypt should have stopped as soon as the maniac terrorists took it over.
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