The Future of U.S. Assistance to Egypt
August 22nd, 2008 by Adam
In the context of the recent sentencing of Saad Eddin Ibrahim to two years in prison, in large part for recommending the conditioning of U.S. military aid to Egypt on political reforms, Scott Carpenter at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy has written an interesting piece about the future status of U.S. assistance to Egypt. Carpenter concludes that the Mubarak regime’s “resolute failure to live up to its human rights obligations” will undermine support for economic assistance to Egypt and increase the desire within Congress to condition military aid on political and economic reforms.
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