I would have our government agree that it will follow the law. Which means any further aid is discontinued. If there is any new government, that may be revisited. Either that or change the law.
Which means according to your reading that further aid is discontinued.
We haven’t established that you’re correct.
I finally got around to reading the Daily Caller article, and it’s actually not bad. It doesn’t say that Obama is pushing for the continuance of aid. It quotes Obama as saying in a statement:
“We need to give this a little thought and see what the law requires” doesn’t sound too frightening to me. The article quotes Cantor and Corker as being similarly circumspect.
To its credit, the article also notes:
This suggests that there is a process in place for getting a waiver under this law and that getting such a waiver is hardly a new thing.
Finally, the article notes:
My bold.
Just four days? That was fast!! Man, Obama was all over it that time. How long ago was the coup in Egypt, let me ask you that, huh!? Oh, four days ago? Ah. Never mind.
This is the stupidest Obama criticism I’ve heard since, probably, Tuesday. Maybe Monday.
Or until Terr’s next one.
In this context ‘anyone who counts’ is the president, a significant bloc of senators and/or congressmen, or a significant bloc of voters. So far none of these is taking your position. If anything they’re being astoundingly rational about the subject.
Amusingly, of the 1,471 $millions of Aid given to Egypt by America in 2011, 1,298 was devoted to the Egyptian military.
If around 88% of ‘Aid’ is not devoted to people’s welfare, as touchingly presumed by ‘Aid’s’ critics and defenders, but instead goes to prop up the armies that control them, maybe Foreign Aid should be renamed something other. Such as Mercenary Tribute.
Dude, you’re like the first person here who didn’t know that. Try to keep up.
You may have known that: perhaps you can point out any post earlier in this thread that pointed out that the ‘Aid’ is mostly military. And since I pointed it out, you may be assured that I knew that.
Not that I’m criticising. America has it’s ( good ) reasons, and it’s best to feed lions than keep them starved; just that calling it Aid is a trifle self-righteous on both sides.
What’s wrong with letting Congress make that decision, which is what appears to be happening?
If it’s just up to the President and Congress, why have laws?
Fuck yeah! If Terr doesn’t have a say, it ain’t really democracy.
So, reading the news today it looks like there are Senators in both parties who are taking both sides on this. Very complicated. But, it also notes that Obama is the decider as to whether this is a coup or not, so it’s really up to him unless Congress writes a new law.
As violence escalates, there really are no good options for us here.
Does that not depend upon which side is escalating or will escalate the violence?
I’ll go with what an Egyptian thinks about it:
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It doesn’t follow that democratically elected leads to democratic governance. The law was poorly written, but should be followed anyway. I’d hope both sides of the isle would get their shit together to legally give the president the tools he needs for an outcome in Egypt remotely good for us and them.
Did you skip civics they day they covered legislation?
If civics class covered the part where the executive branch doesn’t have to carry out the laws if the President doesn’t feel like it, I must have missed it.
Regards,
Shodan
Then you should go back to class. There is no means to force the President to act. The congress can remove him from office if they don’t like what he’s doing, or not doing.
No, that would be the part where the executive branch doesn’t have to carry out the laws if Congress doesn’t feel like it.
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Meanwhile, the restoration of power, disappearance of gas lines, and immediate deployment of police forces after the last week’s military takeover suggest that remnants of Hosni Mubarak’s regime played a significant role in undermining Morsy’s prior to his ouster. “This was preparing for the coup,” Naser el-Farash, a spokesman for the Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade under Mr. Morsy told the New York Times. “Different circles in the state, from the storage facilities to the cars that transport petrol products to the gas stations, all participated in creating the crisis.” *
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Despite the unrest, American officials indicated on Wednesday that they plan to move ahead with the delivery of four new F-16 fighter jets to Egypt as part of the United States’ annual military assistance.*