Let's do a quick review of what's gone down in Egypt over the past two months alone.
A.) The Muslim Brotherhood and an even more extreme Islamist party, Al-Nour, won control of 75 percent of the Egyptian parliament after sweeping electoral victories.
B) The Brotherhood wasted no time angling for sharia law and the elimination of Egypt's 31-year peace treaty with Israel.
C) The ruling military regime--which seems to have struck up a marriage of convenience with the Islamists, for the time being--rounded up and arrested 43 foreign aid workers, including 19 Americans, and is refusing to let them leave the country. A show trial may soon follow.
And what is the price that Egypt's ruling Islamo-military complex will pay for this bad behavior? More like, what is the price that will be paid to the Brotherhood? Why, $1.3 billion in military aid, what else?
Here's more on the Obama administration's new Islamist Winter, er, Arab Spring aid package that your taxpayer dollars will be supporting, from Reuters:
The White House announced plans on Monday to help "Arab Spring" countries swept by revolutions with more than $800 million in economic aid, while maintaining U.S. military aid to Egypt.
In his annual budget message to Congress, President Barack Obama asked that military aid to Egypt be kept at the level of recent years -- $1.3 billion -- despite a crisis triggered by an Egyptian probe targeting American democracy activists.
The proposals are part of Obama's budget request for fiscal year 2013, which begins October 1. His requests need the approval of Congress, where some lawmakers want to cut overseas spending to address U.S. budget shortfalls and are particularly angry at Egypt.
Obama proposed $51.6 billion in funding for the U.S. State Department and foreign aid overall, when $8.2 billion in assistance to war zones is included. The "core budget" for the category would increase by 1.6 percent, officials said.
Most of the economic aid for the Arab Spring countries -- $770 million -- would go to establish a new "Middle East and North Africa Incentive Fund," the president said in his budget plan.
Read it all. If it all sounds pretty horrible, that's because, well, it is. But hey, according to the Brotherhood, we wouldn't dare cut aid to Egypt even if we wanted to. So it looks like happy days and the sharia way are here to stay.