if a) we weren't sabotaging the aid with strings and things, if b) the aid itself were actual aid, not a kind of company store voucher system, and if c) we weren't playing the Uzbekistan game with sundry african tyrants, not just Egypt. I'm surprised kind of that you aren't aware of any of this - it isn't as if it's much deeper hidden or harder to research than US involvment in Central American torture. Frex:
It would help a little
Date: 2005-07-06 09:23 pm (UTC)one link
another link
yet another
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(all found by googling us arms african dictators)
But then, so many on the center-left are totally brainwashed by the SCLM talking points, I guess I shouldn't still be...