Now that Syria’s chemical weapons  use and its aftermath have been plastered in the frontage of every news media outlet, the Egyptian coup..errhm  i mean, crisis, has taken a back seat in the list of pressing issue . The  revolution started out with a positive cause of deposing a ruthless dictator who had nearly untethered control for 30 years with foreign support, but what is happening now looks similar to the Mubarak regime under the guise of provisional “military led government.” The Military has control over the airwaves. The news organizations that are  not approved by the military are widely cracked down and its journalists jailed.

All of this to the average American citizen is irrelevant or at best tragic, what everyone should be considered about is the aid that the US sends in billions of dollars to Egypt. The United States  cannot legally send aid to a foreign government that had a coup. So even though the US has “suspended” aid until further “revision.” The State Departments official stance towards this is to not change course citing that it doesn’t have to “make a formal determination.”

This is what is most troubling over all, an official policy to ignore a mandate for provisional aid.  But even more comical is the visit by Sen. Michelle Bachmann and Lindsey Graham to Egypt where Bachmann infamously uttered the following sentence “We’ve seen the threat that the Muslim Brotherhood has posed around the world,” she said Saturday. “We stand against this great evil. We are not for them. We remember who caused 9/11 in America. We remember who it was that killed 3,000 brave Americans. We have not forgotten. We know that you have dealt with that enemy as well.”

Despite the idiocy, revisionist history and short term memory of a tragic event, what is most troubling is that a representative of the US government uncritically supporting a undemocratic government crackdown on  pro-democracy groups and using 9/11 as a moral and false equivalent to justify it.

The next steps taken by the US  have to be considered carefully since it’s questionable financial support of a government appears to be a dictatorship in its infancy stage is already ill advised and hypocritical of its extolled value placed on “democracy.”