5/30/2016

America gives Egypt free armored vehicles. Egypt gives America a slap in the face.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fatah al-Sissi in Manama, Bahrain, on Oct. 30, 2015. (Hasan Jamali/Associated Press)














This month, the United States delivered the first batch of 762 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles to Egypt free of charge. That’s on top of the $1.3 billion in military aid the Obama administration has allocated to the regime of Abdel Fatah al-Sissi this year. The White House refuses to condition these gifts on an improvement in Egypt’s horrendous human rights record. So herewith a more modest proposal: Obama should ask Sissi to publicly explain how the MRAPs fit into the “fourth-generation war.”