A good move from the House

From The Washington Free Beacon:

Walsh: Cut Aid to Egypt
Rep. Joe Walsh (R., Ill.) is calling for the U.S. to ax foreign aid to Egypt in light of a recent election that put in power a new Muslim Brotherhood-backed president who said that he is reassessing the country�s peace treaty with Israel and considering increasing ties to Iran.

�The sole purpose for providing Egypt with over $2 billion dollars a year in U.S taxpayer dollars was to maintain the peace treaty with Israel and promote stability in the region,� Walsh said in a statement provided to the Free Beacon. �With the Muslim brotherhood now calling on closer ties to Iran and a redo of the peace treaty with Israel, I see no reason to send one more dollar of U.S aid to Egypt. Every dollar wasted propping up this new government is a dollar wasted that should be going to paying down our debt or providing tax relief to struggling American families.�

I like it! Congressman Allen West had this to say on his Facebook page:

The Muslim B'Hood takeover in Egypt shows Arab Spring is radical Islamic nightmare.
A year ago there were those of us who warned the Obama Administration of a Muslim Brotherhood takeover in Egypt. We were castigated as alarmists and loose cannons. Today our predictions have come to reality and the ominous specter reminding us of the Iranian revolution is evident. The Muslim Brotherhood claimed they would not run a presidential candidate. Clearly the Arab Spring is nothing more than a radical Islamic nightmare. Now we need to unequivocally reiterate our support to the Coptic Christians and Israel. What an incredible foreign policy faux pas by the second coming of President Jimmy Carter, the Obama Administration. I call upon President Barack Obama to cut off American foreign aid to Egypt, denounce the results of this election, repudiate the Muslim Brotherhood, and all radical Islamist political entities.

There is no reason to be sending them $2B/year with no quid pro quo on their part. Congressman West's comments about Jimmy Carter ring true. From Yahoo/ABC News:

Jimmy Carter Accuses U.S. of 'Widespread Abuse of Human Rights'
A former U.S. president is accusing the current president of sanctioning the "widespread abuse of human rights" by authorizing drone strikes to kill suspected terrorists.

Jimmy Carter, America's 39th president, denounced the Obama administration for "clearly violating" 10 of the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, writing in a New York Times op-ed on Monday that the "United States is abandoning its role as the global champion of human rights."

This "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" was issued by the United Nations and is widely ignored by almost everyone. We are at war and the enemy has brought asymmetrical warfare to our shores. We are responding in kind. Carter needs to realize this. It is this sort of imbecilic thinking that made him a one-term president.