The Egyptian government, like the Israeli government, is a brutal entity with absolutely no interest in protecting human rights. Neither one deserves to be supported by the US!
The Egyptian government, like the Israeli government, is a brutal entity with absolutely no interest in protecting human rights. Neither one deserves to be supported by the US!
It's certainly not people like you, but it's what we have come to expect from US governments (not forgetting their minions like the British government).
Gogs, as I have said a million times, the problem with the US government is money. As long as electeds need private money (from AIPAC or Pentagon contractors, for example), they cannot properly focus on anything other than getting the money, and legislating in whatever way will please the donor.
Military action in the Middle East pleases AIPAC, as long as it's hostile to anyone except Israel, and it pleases Pentagon contractors (to support a "proxy war" of any kind, for or against anyone) because it creates a market for those contractors. Some of the equipment, violently expensive, though it is, doesn't even work well. The available excuse of the US government is that we have an opportunity to try it out and improve it, at the expense of other people's lives, of course.
But in proposed answer to my own question, we also seem to love hostility. We have generally outlawed dog and cock fights, and bull fights, but we still have a shocking abundance of civilian-owned guns (the major cause of death in minors of all ages and in suicides), we sort of complain about, but don't really do anything about, deaths gratuitously caused by police, we can't bring ourselves to give up capital punishment, unfairly imposed as it is (that might be its most appealing feature), and we have are most generous in supporting what Ron describes as "brutal entit[ies] with absolutely no interest in protecting human beings." I suspect Ron is wrong when he says "neither one deserves to be supported by the US." In fact, considering what's wrong with us, those two are indeed the most deserving. "Brutal entit[ies] with absolutely no interest in protecting human rights" are very much right up our street.
The Egyptian government, like the Israeli government, is a brutal entity with absolutely no interest in protecting human rights. Neither one deserves to be supported by the US!
And yet, inexplicably, these two are the most supported by the US. What does this say about us?
It's certainly not people like you, but it's what we have come to expect from US governments (not forgetting their minions like the British government).
Gogs, as I have said a million times, the problem with the US government is money. As long as electeds need private money (from AIPAC or Pentagon contractors, for example), they cannot properly focus on anything other than getting the money, and legislating in whatever way will please the donor.
Military action in the Middle East pleases AIPAC, as long as it's hostile to anyone except Israel, and it pleases Pentagon contractors (to support a "proxy war" of any kind, for or against anyone) because it creates a market for those contractors. Some of the equipment, violently expensive, though it is, doesn't even work well. The available excuse of the US government is that we have an opportunity to try it out and improve it, at the expense of other people's lives, of course.
But in proposed answer to my own question, we also seem to love hostility. We have generally outlawed dog and cock fights, and bull fights, but we still have a shocking abundance of civilian-owned guns (the major cause of death in minors of all ages and in suicides), we sort of complain about, but don't really do anything about, deaths gratuitously caused by police, we can't bring ourselves to give up capital punishment, unfairly imposed as it is (that might be its most appealing feature), and we have are most generous in supporting what Ron describes as "brutal entit[ies] with absolutely no interest in protecting human beings." I suspect Ron is wrong when he says "neither one deserves to be supported by the US." In fact, considering what's wrong with us, those two are indeed the most deserving. "Brutal entit[ies] with absolutely no interest in protecting human rights" are very much right up our street.