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To: JSteff
“Don’t US taxpayers pay Egypt $2 billion a year in foreign aid?”

Best bargain we have.

What do we get in return?

20 posted on 10/11/2007 5:31:55 PM PDT by secretagent
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To: secretagent
Relative peace at the top end of the Suez Canal, a buffer state between Libya and Israel, Egypt cooperates with us militarily including joint military training operations in North Africa (which is nice to have in that area), we prevented the USSR from reestablishing a base immediately beside Israel and on the southern side of the Mediterranean, Egypt along with Turkey and Jordan and Israel have joint SAR agreements and operations, Egypt has kept radical Islam low key in that region,.....

need more?

21 posted on 10/12/2007 9:08:35 PM PDT by JSteff (Reality= realizing you are not nearly important enough for the government to tap your phone.)
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