re: #124 karmic_inquisitor

and the price tag in terms of billions in aid annually? And we prop up a regime in Egypt that is still anti-Soviet (the selling point at the time) but pretty much is a corrupt dictatorship that has zero interest in seeing a pluralistic, democratic Middle East.

Sounds like just about everybody we’re giving foreign aid to over there. And although they do have problems with their democratic process, at least they have one, so I don’t think “corrupt dictatorship” really applies. More like “corrupt democracy,” a la Afghanistan under Karzai.