Any U.S. reaction to the crackdown is unlikely to involve Congress ending more than 30 years of aid to Cairo, Jay Newton-Small writes for Time’s Swampland blog: This isn’t the Congress’s first bid to restrict American aid to Egypt, nor will it be the last. In 2006, Congress made U.S. aid to Egypt conditional on its progress on human rights and democracy, but then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice used a national security waiver to bypass the restrictions. Last session, ten bills were introduced limiting both America’s military aid as well as another $200 million in annual economic aid to the country. Thirteen more have been introduced this year, with growing levels of support, especially in the wake of the military’s overthrow of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. - See more at: demdigest.net/blog/2013/07/egypt-to-clear-pro-morsi-protest-camps-but-u-s-aid-is-here-to-stay/#sthash.s858sH0A.dpuf
Posted on: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 20:48:45 +0000
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