In the aftermath of Egypt’s relatively bloodless revolution, it is worth considering the apparently contradictory role that our own government played: American foreign aid programs in Egypt were simultaneously promoting democracy and propping up an autocratic government.
According to the Unites States Agency for International Development in Egypt (USAID/Egypt), we spent $25 million on “Democracy and Governance” programs for fiscal year 2010. In the same year, the Foreign Military Financing (FMF) program was providing $1.3 billion to prop up Egypt’s very undemocratic government.
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