Posted on 04/04/2017 8:58:19 PM PDT by Lorianne
Egypt’s hideous tyrant, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, is in the U.S. to visit the White House on Monday and this is how the New York Times’s Paul Krugman depicted this event:
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Another morning in Trump's America http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/trump-sisi-egypt-white-house-236782 …
6:57 AM - 2 Apr 2017
Krugman believes — or at least wants his Democratic followers to believe — that supporting and praising savage despotism in Egypt is a new development that only happens in “Trump’s America.” The Washington Post’s neoconservative columnist Jackson Diehl this morning encouraged Post readers to believe in the same fairy tale, complaining in his column about the “ugly scene” of a “love-in” between Trump and “the most repressive dictator in Egypt’s modern history.”
What neither Krugman nor Diehl ever once mentions — either because they’re unaware of it or want to conceal it from their readers — is that the U.S. has been supporting, funding, and arming the Sisi tyranny for years under the Obama administration. In March 2015, as Sisi’s human rights abuses intensified, Obama personally told the Egyptian tyrant in a call the good news that he was lifting a ban “on the delivery of F-16 aircraft, Harpoon missiles, and M1A1 tank kits” and — in the words of the White House — “also advised President al-Sisi that he will continue to request an annual $1.3 billion in military assistance for Egypt.”
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Well said.
It chronicles how the media, even subtly, misguides people by leaving out key information.
Fake News can be overt but often it is subtly fake. Oftentimes, like in this article, it implies something is new or a new policy when it has in fact been going on for a long time.
It is important to point this out all the time.
That may be true, but the article is purveying fake news in suggesting that our policy towards Egypt has suddenly changed under Trump.
Read your own tagline.
That may be true, but we were arming Egypt under Morsi as well.
We were arming Mubarak and Morsi (and every other Egyptian leader) right along. Our policy has not changed under Trump whether the leader of Egypt is a “tyrant” or not.
This is the same website that published Edward Snowden’s leaks.
It makes me think Snowden was, and STILL IS, working for the CIA.
Actually once Al Sisi was voted in and Morsi tossed out, 0bola either stopped aid (arms or $ or whatever, I can’t remember) and Saudi and Russia stepped in.
And of course the article lies.
We have never stopped aid to Egypt
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