Open season for dictators?

After Tunisia, it's now Egypt's turn to boil and what's fascinating is that, as another despot the western world tolerate is being challenged, the political leaders in these same countries don't know what to say and don't dare doing what would be right.

In the case of Egypt the solution is amazingly simple: The US should dictate Hosni Mubarak what to do or close the purse strings, and what an open purse that is, with military aid to Egypt topping $1.3 billion annually, not counting over $28 billion in economic and development assistance made available to Egypt since 1975, according to our own State Department.

This kind of paralysis reminds me of the same docile behavior we always adopt with Israel. Our government is sitting on its hands hoping that some radical Muslim won't take over and yet dispensing taxpayer's monies to countries that only do as they wish. Fear is what guide us and over time it has proved to always be a very bad move indeed.