With news stories such as “innocent civilians crushed and shot to death, and their only crime was participating in a peaceful march to reject the destruction of their church” many Americans have understandably objected to our recent gift of F-16’s and other state of the art weapons to the current Muslim Brotherhood government of Egypt. Those in favor have stated that we made an agreement with the prior Egyptian government and therefore we must honor it.
After the French Revolution occurred the new French government attempted to get us into war with England based upon our alliance during the American Revolution. But we said no. A new and different French government in power made that agreement with a prior government invalid and we proclaimed our neutrality. We avoided a calamitous war with England and prospered from trade while France became a bloodbath ended only by Napoleon’s dictatorship.
It appears to be that ignorance of American history and precedence is a perquisite to being in power in today’s Washington.
Copyright 2013, Mark L. Bennett
