You misread me. I wasn’t talking about Americans abroad. I was talking about them at home.
It is not my government, I am not Egyptian. But I do agree they should stop the aid.
Most is spent now on enhancing internal security and keeping Mubarak in power and crushing the likes of El Baradei or Ayman Nour. It keeps one party in power. Importantly this in turn recruits people to the Muslim Brotherhood. Take a walk round Cairo and talk to the people.
The rest is on condition it buys US products which ensure the return of the money back to the US two fold.
Ordinary Egyptians do not benefit and they see this.
They see the US as a supporter of a dictator for 3 decades.
Ask the man in the street.