Egypt gets about one and a half billion dollars in aid (still) most of which goes to the Egyptian military to allow them to buy US arms, including a surplus of Abrams tanks that they’ll never use. It’s essentially a charity program for US weapons manufacturing and one that can be hidden in the aid budget instead of military procurement.
Oh, I know Egypt isn’t Syria, just pointing out how US foreign policy works in the region and how it relates to pork for powerful lobbies.
