The State Department has refused to cancel or delay the delivery of several American-made F-16 fighter jets to Egypt, claiming that the arms deal serves America’s “regional security interests,” according to an official State Department document obtained by the Free Beacon.
The news that the Obama administration would uphold an aid package to Egypt that included the military hardware prompted concern on Capitol Hill from lawmakers who said the deal was not prudent given the political situation in Egypt, where Muslim Brotherhood-backed President Mohammed Morsi has clashed with democratic protestors.
“Sixteen F-16s and 200 Abrams tanks are to be given to the Egyptian government before the end of the year under a foreign aid deal signed in 2010 with then-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak,” Fox News reported Tuesday.
The State Department maintained in a January 8 letter to Sen. James Inhofe (R., Okla.) that the arming of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood serves the U.S.’s “regional security interests.”
The Egyptian military has traditionally been cool to the Muslim Brotherhood.
I guess the State Department hopes to keep ingratiating itself with the Egyptian military via arms sales like this one.
But I can remember when liberals furiously denounced the U.S. practice of buying influence abroad by selling weapons to various regimes. I guess it’s OK now that Obama does it.
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The Muslim Brotherhood’s credo:
“God is our objective; the Quran is our constitution, the Prophet is our leader; Jihad is our way; and death for the sake of God is the highest of our aspirations.”
Their well known, stated intent is the destruction of Western civilization.
This deal isn’t insane, it’s traitorous.
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This is absolutely insane. Israel is our only friend in the Middle East and, once again, the leftists in America choose to support those who hate us.
As a proud former Army Infantry officer, I thank God every day that I am not on active duty under this President. Because of his actions and views, there is likely to be much more blood shed by American patriots who have the misfortune of having O as CINC. God help them and keep them safe.
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[...] American F-16′s Headed For Muslim Brotherhood In Egypt [...]
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“After all, Benghazi did not happen in a vacuum. The Arab revolutions have scrambled power dynamics and shattered security forces across the region. Instability in Mali has created an expanding safe haven for terrorists who look to extend their influence and plot further attacks of the kind we saw just last week in Algeria.”
-Hillary Clinton
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What irony! The same gang that wants to disarm its own law abiding citizens is arming to our newest enemy with some of the world’s best weapons.
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