The current Egyptian government is the best we can hope for in the Islamic world.
The pragmatist in me says we need to support them.
Islam is the problem.
Sometimes the libertarian inclined are just as bat--- crazy as the left.
(1) Disarm Israel.
(2) Replace all neutral or pro-American Middle East dictators with radical anti-American terrorist organizations.
“How would you want your senator to vote on this?”
Vote it down. Egypt presently has the BEST GOVERNMENT it has ever had since WW2. The president, who is a Muslim, even celebrates Christmas.
But Rand is some kind of psycho when it comes to foreign policy (other than that, I like him a lot), so I’m not surprised he’s trying to take down al-Sisi.
No one has mentioned the elephant in the room:
IRAN.
Iran is using its proxies to wage war on Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other less than bat sh*t crazy Muslim countries.
We should not only sell them arms, we should be using them as a lab to find out how to counter the cheap weaponized drones Iran uses.
After Obama’s first major wave of destruction and chaos, the Arab Spring, he helped install the wretched Muslim Brotherhood. Egypt’s economy was in a shambles, and they were heading down the path of total genocide of the Christian Copts.
The US deep state, Obama’s state department, DoD attitude was like “oh well. look what happened.” Truly evil people.
Then el-Sisi and the military conducted a coup, restored order, grew the economy - and saved the Copts and saved Egypt.
I don’t know if El-Sisi even wants overwhelming US support - but at least nots use the power of the US government to create chaos, especially under the random, fake, ever-changing woke definition of “human rights”
We could start by defining “human rights” as the right to live in a country not undergoing civil-war. How about that as a start?