It may be clear to us, but our GOP leadership is all over the map right now and I might add, so are the democrats.
We even have Cruz and Rand Paul promoting a cut in aid to Egypt now. None of them can say why this is in our national interests though, other than saying...’the law is the law’..blahblahlah. I can’t figure out if they are getting bad intel from Obama’s intelligence agencies or coming to these conclusions watching a horribly biased world press. The time to cut off aid was when Morsi was turning Egypt into a totalitarian Islamist state! None of them..Obama or McCain, made moves to do that at that time. it was only when Morsi was overthrown that they both started floating the idea.
Something is fundamentally out of whack in this country on both sides of the aisle IMHO. I am guessing it is because the fish rots from the head down.
We have ingrained the very idea of democracy and elections as perfect things that must be preserved at all costs. Yet people forget the Nazi party--and Adolph Hitler's--rise to preeminence in Germany happened because Germans voted for them!
Lot's of evil regimes have popular support. That doesn't necessarily make them friends of America because some fruitcake or nut wins an election.
Proof?
Nov 6th, 2012. Barrack Hussein Obama* wins re-election.
*j/k, because I will support my countrymen's decisions, but WILL NOT if they collectively, through a vote or other means, try to take away my Constitutional, no, GOD-GIVEN rights.
Kabar said it best in his post about what happened when we deserted the Shah of Iran's military. IMHO, 9/11 thru our current war in Afghanistan is a result of that debacle.