KLAMarine said:
Interesting figures but this was for 2014, not 2011-2012 when the Arab Spring occurred. You mentioned that "when the Arab Spring happened [the US] just told Mubarak to step down and then let the military take over, avoiding revolution". So where is the objection? History has shown us that revolutions can get violent thus if revolution was avoided according to you, what's there to be upset about? |
It shows that the United States supported the coup, by giving them such massive amounts of money after their takeover.
So, your second paragraph is basically, revolutions = violent, therefore revolutions = bad? Is that seriously your logic? That's ignoring the torture initiated by Mubarak, especially post 9/11, and the Egyptian government's highly repressive policies.
