Just saw a Fox News on-line blurb saying, “Cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas announced.” Followed by, “Mohammed Kamel Amr, the foreign minister, made the announcement in Cairo and was flanked by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Egypt is assuming the responsibility and leadership that has long made this country a cornerstone of international peace, Clinton said.”
After reading the preceding, and wondering what wondrous words of diplomacy, foreign relations and knowledge of solving age-old Middle-Eastern conflicts Hillary assumedly possessed, because, after all she was sent there by the POTUS, I looked up the U.S. subsidy to Egypt out of curiosity.
On a website called, pro publica, I found that “Egypt gets the most U.S. foreign aid of any country except for Israel. (This doesn't include the money spent on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.) The exact amount varies from year to year and there are many different funding streams, but U.S. foreign assistance to Egypt has averaged about $2 billion a year since 1979, when Egypt struck a peace treaty with Israel following the Camp David accords, according to the Congressional Research Service.”
So, what that says to me is, it’s possible that Hillary didn’t really have to show up in Egypt at all, because I believe that a phone call from POTUS, or perhaps a visit to Egypt by even J. Fred Muggs with a note around his neck saying shut this Hezbollah rocket fire down or your funds are gone, would have achieved exactly the same thing. Which brings me back to my continual thought that nothing is ever done by the entire administration that isn’t based on positive political spin
Nonetheless, photo-ops don’t equate to effective governance nor do they cover for gross incompetence. So, tomorrow's another day and will likely call for further executive decisions on whatever arises then. And as evidenced by the state our nation’s in, good decision-making isn’t a forte possessed by anyone in the current administration, nor has it ever been.
That’s it for today folks.
Adios
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