With the Obama Administration openly threatening to cut off all aid to Egypt over the country’s attempt to charge US NGO workers with illegal efforts to interfere in the nation’s elections, Egypt’s parliament is poised to move ahead and block the aid from coming in the first place.
The dispute over the NGO workers has calmed somewhat since the workers were bailed out and left the country, but the dispute over US aid remains. A recent poll showed strong opposition among Egyptian voters for accepting aid at any rate, and MPs are arguing that the US is “disregarding” the nation’s sovereignty.
Since much of the US aid is delivered directly to the Egyptian military junta it is unclear whether parliament can even theoretically block the cash flow. Parliament has been at odds with the junta since the recent election.
The change in governments, coupled with the major NGO row, has become a rare occasion during which US foreign aid is being openly debated in another country. The acceptance of US aid clearly has strings attached, and whether those strings are worth it is a question rarely explored abroad, where decades of taking the money has given the policy too much momentum to question.
The Egyptians should tell the U.S. to take its bribe money (i.e., "aid") and stick it up its collective national ass.
The US thinks it can plot and connive its way to control a country every time some upheaval occurs.
But there are limits to this.
Turmoil is good in the provinces of the US Empire.
For turmoil opens the doors to expulsion of the Empire – which in the end will require force because the Empire rests on force and the spillage of blood.
Worldwide Empire — How could it be?
John V. Walsh
“Turmoil is good in the provinces of the US Empire.
For turmoil opens the doors to expulsion of the Empire –
which in the end will require force because the Empire
rests on force and the spillage of blood.”
An axiom yes, an absolute surely, but one that has yet to be proven as never has an Empire reached its ultimate goal — supreme power and deadly force over all the earth.
For though we have 4,500 nukes and sufficient kill power to A-bomb both Russia and China back to the stone age, the real issue is, could nukes produce the deadly force needed to terrorize the entire world into submission? Its like all the carnage on the highway with the vast majority of deaths caused by drunk driving, still the deadly force of it, notwithstanding the fear of death inherent in driving under the influence, the slaughter just keeps getting greater.
So, exactly what could our Empire do to establish world submission, nuke a few small nations to get Russia and China fearful and into submission? Seems to me it would have the reverse effect.
One launch of any nuke at Russia, or China and the US will be finished. Do not be so arrogant to think that this will not happen. Furthermore the entire US Navy, and its carriers are floating coffins. Russia, and China have enough land to sea ballistic missiles to destroy the paper tiger per se'. You have no idea what the world is capable of, and what it will do to stop American imperial terror. Most armchair warriors in America have no real clue about the big bad world that is never seen by viewers of the coprorate media. Tsk Tsk Tsk….
I/m pretty sure the US government would consider refusing to be an unforgiveable act of defiance, even an act of war-seceding from the empire. They couldn't say that publicly but you can bet they are not going to just allow someone to refuse the foreign aid bribe.
The best thing that could ever happen to the Egyptian people is that their corrupt handlers (whoever they maybe) stop taking bribes from the US. The moment the flow of payola stops, their independence starts.
UPDATE: Iran's PressTV reports that the Egyptian Parliament has just voted to expel the Israeli ambassador. HA HA HA HA! I'm loving it!
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