Washington's faithful, murderous clients in Cairo

Oh Wow! American officials HAVE announced they will suspend impending joint military exercises with the interim Egyptian regime. But $1.3 billion in military aid to the latest Egyptian dictatorship is merely to be "reviewed." It will not be suspended or least of all terminated, as should happen, because of course, Egypt controls the Suez Canal and Washington needs to vouchsafe its "vital national interests." The White House and State Department also need to keep the "Peace Treaty," dating back to the original Camp David accords of 1978, in effect. It hardly matters which brutal autocrats retain power in Cairo. Our notorious client state Israel, whose $4 billion annual allocation of military aid - which dwarfs that received by Egypt - must be assured that their southwestern neighbor will remain a compliant presence on the Sinai border. Of course, Egypt also receives more than $12 billion in aid every year from nearby Arab states, so even if Washington did interrupt the pipeline of death to Cairo, it wouldn't change things drastically. America's influence is considerably less than it used to be. But at least cutting off the lethal supply would send an important message from this side, that for once, Obama really does object to the routine murder and mayhem perpetrated by USA's faithful client regimes. Needless to say, a more enlightened policy is almost certainly never going to be imposed. BTW, in case anyone didn't already figure this out - I am NO fan of the Muslim Brotherhood. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35859.htm