These are not choices that we have to make in terms of either/or, these are choices that both need to be made.
We cannot take the entitlement mentality to the issue of deploying U.S., scarce, limited, precious U.S. assets anywhere ...
If you actually look at its track record, warts and all, it has been a strong investment tool for the United States.
Aid is a tool. It is an investment. It has a return on it.
We have a new Egypt emerging and it is an Egypt that we don't know, or at least we don't know completely.
Aid is not an entitlement. There has to be accountability. There have to be metrics, otherwise it is not worth doing.
how do we measure success in a program that has changed quite dramatically since its first conception?
How in the world can we be investing money in a program that has no milestones and no metrics?
I am concerned that to them it seems like a second tier issue that will fade in our attention.
To protect our enduring interests we must ensure that the root causes of the upheavals of the past year... are answered ...
The MENA Incentive Fund represents a new approach for our engagement.