The Obama Administration has erratically claimed neutrality with regards to the turmoil in Egypt, but has also intervened in the chaos. After several years of coddling the increasingly tyrannical Muslim Brotherhood-led Egyptian government, the Obama Administration has become quite invested in their regime.
Obama’s foreign policy is so awful that he makes Jimmy Carter look halfway competent.
The Obama Administration has been instrumental in the destabilizing of the Middle East. Having supported the so-called Arab Spring, the “tread lightly” mantra of Obama’s foreign policy has led to a rapid destabilization of Libya and Egypt reminiscent of the destabilization of Iran that Carter helped create decades ago.
Now that Mohamed Morsi’s short reign has come to an end, the Obama Administration has postured as if they’re neutral, but are anything but. This administration has signaled an unwillingness to admit what the rest of the world already knows: the Morsi regime was bad news.
The Obama Administration who has shuttered the White House because America is too poor to keep the peoples’ house open for viewing has also been pumping over $1.3 billion into the tyrannical government and providing them with fighter jets and tanks while Morsi has made thinly-veiled threats to our allies in Israel and continued to increase political oppression of the Egyptian people.
Now that a new regime is taking hold, the Obama Administration has decided to not hold off and are continuing to send fighter jets to Egypt- despite the murky waters that lie ahead.
Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Wesley Miller stated, “We remain committed to the U.S.-Egypt defense relationship as it remains a foundation of our broader strategic partnership with Egypt, and serves as a pillar of regional stability.”
Sure, nothing says “a pillar of regional stability” like the ousting of one tyrant to be replaced by another tyrant who would be replaced less than two years later.
The truth is that we don’t know what lies ahead for Egypt. While we hope that stability increases, the turbulence in the region should merit a withholding of weapons until we can see how things are shaping up.
While still maintaining that they are remaining neutral, Obama Administration spokeswoman Jen Psaki claimed that they join Germany in supporting the release of deposed tyrant Mohamed Morsi.
I don’t know if I would call that “neutral.”
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