Sunday, February 5, 2012

Now we have to pay the ransom

The referral to criminal trial of dozens of Americans, some of them prominent, in Egypt today is just another example of America's declining (squandered, to be exact) world influence.

You can trace a line directly from the activities of the Israeli lobby in the United States to this decline in influence, and to today's news of the Americans in Egypt.

The events of course mean that Congress will have to drop all thoughts of cutting off aid to Egypt. That annual aid is now the ransom. Of course, if we had refrained from both the aid and the meddling in the first place, we wouldn't be in this pickle, now would we?

All these sorts of events are just more examples of the foreign-policy "blowback" Ron Paul has been warning us about for years. The denialists try to counter this argument by simply calling these events something other than blowback. This helps them keep living in their bubble world for just a little while longer.

It should come as no surprise to people who've been paying attention that these Americans abroad aren't quite as innocent as the media portrays them to be. Pat Buchanan has a good post on this from a few days ago: Our Innocents Abroad?

Also no surprise, of course, to learn there is an AIPAC connection.

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