The document discusses America's foreign policy towards Egypt over the past 40 years. It argues that the billions of dollars in aid provided by the US has failed to promote democracy in Egypt and instead propped up authoritarian rulers. It notes that US support for dictators like Mubarak burdened the Egyptian people economically and politically. While the US says it wants to help Egyptians, its actions often undermine self-determination and fuel anti-American sentiment. The document calls for a less interventionist approach and an end to supporting dictators not aligned with the people's interests.

1. America has yet to build an independent democracy free from secular religion or
authoritarian rule by dictators in the Middle East other than Lebanon, Turkey, and
Israel. A shining example of one of the countries in the Middle East, that despite
American foreign aid has resisted intervention from the U.S., and suffered
economically, and politically, is Egypt.
For nearly forty years, the United States has aided Egypt under the pretense that our
assistance will help Egyptians build a democracy. Ironically, democracy is on the
lower end of the spectrum in regards to what Egyptians say they want from their
government. America has bestowed the government of Egypt almost $60 billion
during those forty years. CongressmanRon Paul said in 2008 on CNN regarding
foreign aid to Egypt, “we should do a lot less a lot sooner because it tends to come
back and haunt us. It reminds me a little bit about propping up the shah of Iran, and
then we ended up with the ayatollah”, which then resulted in the Iranian hostage
crisis of 1979. It seems as if the words spoken by the presidential candidate who
has been labeled an isolationist by the corporate whore media, was actually right!
Egyptianauthorities charged nineteen American NGO workers with working without
proper credentials and exploiting illicit foreign resources to generate discontent, but the
Egyptian prosecutor said those who claim to support democratic change, were accused of
espionage, communicating with the Central Intelligence Agency, and sharing
intelligences on Egypt with America’s State Department. Only those who are directly
involved really know who’s side the workers weresupporting. It may very well have
been that there were campers on both sides. Whatever the case may have been, this
is the problem with sticking our nose where it does not belong. Americans must

2. understand that friendship is something that is earned, not purchased. How many
more lives have to be lost, monies spent, and unexpected consequences
sufferedbefore we understand that our current foreign policy is not working?
We give over $1.5 billion in welfare to aid the economy and military in Egypt every
year, yet they still detain United States citizens illegally. If the United States insists
on sticking its nose in other countries affairs, then instead of propping up American
puppets like Mubarak, and feeding his finances rather than thepeoples, we should
listen to what they want, not what benefits the interests of the elite in the United
States and Israel. The problem with this scenario is we do not know any more than
the Egyptian people do,who should take place of the iron-fisted military if they are
overthrown. Ideally, a benevolent dictator would benefit the Egyptian people, but
America’s implicit and express support of the country will only continue to burden
the people economically, and politically.
America provides the weapons these authoritarian regimes use to kill the Egyptian
people! The Egyptian army was built by the United Statesmilitary industrial
complex, which profited greatly. The Army was there only to protect Mubarak. It
was not there to help the people. The military being dependent on the United States
will continue to thrive with America’s support. The Egyptian people will not put up
with influence dependent dictators who feel they have a sense of entitlement. The
Egyptian revolt against the dictatorship thatimposed acruel level of poverty on the
Egyptian people was also a revolt against United State imperialism and a
insurgencyof opposition to United States neocolonial interests in their lands.

3. For over thirty years, areas in the Middle East have had bullets from American guns
kill their fellow citizens and family members. They resistindependence from
colonialism because American interests’ essentially only createconfusion, and fund
authoritarian regimes. The money spent does not help the United States or those
areas economically, nor do they contribute to our securities.Americans need to
return to what our founders set out for America, which was to be friends with the
Middle East and have open trade with them. We should cease getting involved in
internal affairs, treaties, and border quarrels. Are not friendship and diplomacy the
way that we expect to be treated? America says one thing, but does another. Until
the media in America begins to tell the truth about what's really happening in the
Middle East, one can only imagine life will stay the same or inevitably get worse.