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From "Where is Osama Bin laden " a simple video explaining the American policy in the Middle east
The Mubarak trust fund, now in extra-large?| |
Josh Rogin from Foreign Policy published an important report this week on what we've dubbed the Mubarak trust fund. The U.S. Congress already approved a $50 million endowment for the Egyptian government, essentially a pot of money the Mubarak regime can use however it wants.
But Mubarak wants more, according to Rogin -- eighty times more. [The State Department] was preparing to enter into negotiations with Egypt over Cairo's proposal for a new $4 billion aid endowment... the State Department is still evaluating the proposal, but advocates of the endowment approach say that by setting American economic aid to Egypt for the next 10 years, the United States could build cooperation with the Egyptian government, show long-term U.S. commitment to helping the Egyptian people, and help Egypt develop key sectors of its civic infrastructure.
Rogin posted a copy of the full Egyptian proposal (pdf), which calls for a fund "not related to conditionalities."
Mubarak, in the hospital, on the phone
The Obama administration, to its credit, does not seem interested in handing Mubarak a $4 billion blank check. The State Department's offered $1 billion in a counter-proposal, and the money would come with a degree of U.S. oversight and "performance indicators" to gauge whether the money is actually helping the Egyptian economy.
But those provisions are vague, and the counter-offer still fulfills one of Egypt's central key demands: It doesn't include any "conditionalities," like requiring the Egyptian government to lift the emergency laws.
Scott Carpenter from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy calls the whole thing "stunningly deferential" to Mubarak (h/t POMED).
And he raises a question that's been on my mind, too: Why would the U.S. Congress go along with a scheme that undermines its own power of the purse? For its part, Congress has played been unusually quiet on this scheme, so far raising few red flags on a plan that would, effectively, emasculate its oversight role regarding U.S. aid to Egypt.
As Carpenter notes, this fund is unlikely to do much to help the Egyptian people. $4 billion amounts to roughly $50 per person -- and since this is a long-term endowment, spending will be spread over five or ten years. It's a paltry sum that will do little to address Egypt's endemic poverty and crumbling infrastructure.
So it's really a lose-lose situation for Washington: The trust fund offers a symbolic boost for Mubarak -- it's hard to interpret this as anything but an endorsement of his regime -- without achieving any strategic goals in Egypt.
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Vous pouvez retrouver cette video sur google en tapant: VENLAFAXINE ou DANGER EFFEXOR
Elle à été reprise de très nombreuses fois sur youtube et dailymotion.
Bonne journée.