Understandably there has been a lot of talk, particularly among the less-intelligent Washington residents like the ever-sound-bite worthy but always wrong Senator Rand Paul to cut off all aid to Egypt in reaction to the violence this week.
This unfortunately is another sterling example of reality being a lot messier than the sound-bite worthy position. For one thing, US aid to Egypt (and many, many other countries) is military in nature. It is also financed on credit "known as cash flow financing" in the ethereal unreality of DC and Wall Street.
What this means is several billions of dollars might be immediately lost by the US military-industrial complex (horrors) or the US might have to find more deserts to stockpile all the unneeded military gear until a real, rollicking, plenty of money to spend, all-out war erupts somewhere that we can finance.
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