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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (111123)	8/12/2003 4:27:02 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 281500

<Egypt gets $2 billion a year from us and somehow I never hear the word leverage applied in their direction when they lock up & torture hundreds of prisoners, oppress the Copts, or print anti-American and anti-Semitic lies in their media.> Yes, you have a point, there. The U.S. isn't getting much, in return for all the billions we've given to Egypt, as a reward for switching sides in the Cold War. They haven't made war on Israel, that's something. About all they've done for us lately, is allow our troopships to use the canal. For 2B$/y, we could route them around Africa. And there is zero effort made, in this or previous Administrations, to change the human rights abuses in Egypt. In fact, the U.S. has "rendered" prisoners to Egypt, knowing what their security services will do to them. Our alliance with Egypt is a tactical alliance, an arms-length alliance, nowhere near as close as the Israeli-U.S. alliance. I can't imagine a scenario where Israel has an anti-U.S. government (or vice versa). But I can easily imagine a scenario, where the Egyptian government goes the way of Iran's Shah, and is replaced by a virulently anti-American regime.