David French:
Consider the following three events. First, on May 10, 2013, the Obama Administration elected to waive human rights restrictions placed on American military aid to Egypt, freeing up $1.3 billion for the Muslim Brotherhood regime’s military without the required showing that the “Government of Egypt is supporting the transition to civilian government, including holding free and fair elections and implementing policies to protect freedom of expression, association, and religion and due process of law.”
In other words, the Morsi government could keep funding the military even as it brutally oppressed dissent, including Egypt’s embattled Coptic Christian community.
Fast-forward to Monday, July 1, 2013. The corrupt, oppressive Muslim Brotherhood government had just faced what some were counting among the largest public protests in history. And here’s our president:
On Monday, the US president, Barack Obama, indicated that Morsi had not yet lost his backing. “We don’t make those decisions just by counting the number of heads in a protest march but we do make decisions based on whether or not a government is listening to the opposition, maintaining a free press, maintaining freedom of assembly, not using violence or intimidation, conducting fair and free elections,” he said.
Wait. What? Do you not remember that you just waived those very same human rights requirements not even two months ago? How much could you possibly care about these basic liberties?
Now fast-forward to today, July 3, when we learn that the Administration does actually care:
David French makes an admission in his last paragraph, for those who stick with his article to the end:
Those enemies Obama loves always include the Muslim Brotherhood.
They have Obama’s ear.
They sit in on his top meetings, even at the side of Sec State Hillary when she was in office.
As soon as the Egyptian military showed it is still independent of the MB and Morsi, Obama started threatening them.
Obama’s Administration is claiming it can and will cut off all U.S. aid to the Egyptian military if it continues going against the MB and Morsi!
oops the EGYPT MILITARY DECIDED TO DO WHAT IS BEST NOT FOR OBAMA,
but for THE PEOPLE OF EGYPT,