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Egypt braces for Islamist president, or army rule | News by Country | Reuters
The US has been behind much of the Arab Spring by funding and arming many of the rebels thru the CIA in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Syria, etc in an attempt to overthrow dictators and gain some sort of influence thru democracies favorable to US interests. Obviously, there has been a struggle in the past many decades for access to the oil reserves and strategic assets with competing powers (Russia,China). So have we done well to tamp down Muslim extremists who abhor the US and its interests by spending hundreds of billions in Iraq, Afghanistan and now proxy fighting Terrorism and Iran thru places abroad?
CAIRO, June 24 (Reuters) - Five hundred days after they overthrew Hosni Mubarak, Egyptians will finally have a new president on Sunday, the first they have chosen freely and who may well be from the Muslim Brotherhood, which Mubarak and fellow generals spent a lifetime fighting.
The US has been behind much of the Arab Spring by funding and arming many of the rebels thru the CIA in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Syria, etc in an attempt to overthrow dictators and gain some sort of influence thru democracies favorable to US interests. Obviously, there has been a struggle in the past many decades for access to the oil reserves and strategic assets with competing powers (Russia,China). So have we done well to tamp down Muslim extremists who abhor the US and its interests by spending hundreds of billions in Iraq, Afghanistan and now proxy fighting Terrorism and Iran thru places abroad?