Three weeks into the military junta in Egypt, the Obama Administration still hasn’t officially recognized the coup that took place. This isn’t accidental, but rather an attempt to defy US law which explicitly forbids aid to nations after a military coup.
That’s the policy they’re sticking to as well, with State Department officials today informing Congress that they have no plans to “ever” notice the coup in Egypt, and even though the law is clear in banning aid to juntas, the law doesn’t explicitly require them to notice coups.
For a growing number of Senators, this attempt to redefine the law as simply being whatever the president wants it to be isn’t sitting well, and a large number are calling on the Obama Administration to at least sort of follow the law.
Not that this means the aid will ever actually be cut. Several of the senators say that they would be able to easily pass a waiver making Egypt’s coup a special case that the US supports, which of course is in keeping with the fact that the US actively bankrolled the coup.
And they are so witty and smart circumventing the law! Who could possibly discover their ruse? Meritocracy at work- the best the ivy league crook factories can crank out. Based on their actions one can just define government as those with power and looking to violate the law 24/7, but then so is wall street, corporate unAmerica, etc.
If it was a coup then it was against a dictatorial religious fundamentalism that is against the Syrian people and wouldn't mind becoming the enemy of the Iranian people working for Saudi tyranny, such regimes are worse then Israel apartheid, because they are in business of dividing people and regimes that are in bed with Saudis barbarians and paving the ways for USA hegemony in the region, which is dividing nation and braking their unity against imperialism.
"Not that this means the aid will ever actually be cut."
"Aid" is a purposefully misleading government term that attempts to make something negative sound positive and nice. We should just start saying money: "Not that this means the money will ever actually be cut."
This is the result of dealings between Egyptian coup organizers and Israel. Israel had demanded complete closure of Gaza in exchange for their lobby leaning on Obama and Congress not to implement US Law, with regard to the coup. And we all know who controls US foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East.
What the remnants of 30 year Mubarak rule could not accomplish in five consecutive elections over last year (every time they got trounced with 80% of votes), they are trying to take at the barrel of gun, tanks, and F-16s, against peaceful demonstrators. They have already tortured, injured, and imprisoned 10s of thousands and shut down all independent media so the truth does not get out. What the coup leaders, whether they call themselves "liberal", "democratic", or "technocrats" are doing is defined in the American Dictionary as: TERRORISM.
Look: people Obama doctrine in international policies are based on 1-dividing nations based on their religious 2-creating and protecting all other dictatorial and tyrants regimes as Saudis,UAE by the way of sunny Islamization of entire region under all ready an umbrella supported by EU,Saudis and UAE, Muhammad Morsi was their candidate and got the approval seal of Hillary Clinton and White House.
Bill Clinton, Tony Blair and other NATO government approved such idea in Balkan war, is just that Syria is not Yugoslavia nor Egypt is Syria or Yugoslavia. Every military or political move since balkan war by usa and nato has been for and to divide more of nations unity in Middle East by supporting the idea in Islamization by Obama administration. The idiocy of the American Democratic Party or the republican is that they are unable to define democracy, so they do anything and everything which the result is a mixed up resulting to nothing good.