On May 2, 2011, Seal Team 6 infiltrated a terrorist compound in Pakistan and killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, the
mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
All across the country, Americans cheered the news that one of the world's largest mass
murderers had been brought to justice.
Unfortunately, there's a tragedy hiding within this story - and it's being ignored by my
colleagues in Congress.
You see, in the weeks leading up to Osama bin Laden's death, Pakistani Doctor Shakil Afridi risked his life
to provide the U.S. with the information that directly helped Seal Team 6 find and kill bin Laden.
Dr. Afridi should be rewarded - or at
the very least congratulated - for his efforts.
But instead he's been imprisoned, brutally tortured, and sentenced to life in prison for
treason by Pakistan's intelligence agency.
It's a travesty that this hero is being tortured and his family threatened for the crime of
helping America.
And it's an outrage the United States continues to send over $2 billion in taxpayer money to Pakistan each year!
And it gets worse - much worse.
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Egyptian
President Mohamed Morsi recently attempted to seize absolute power and impose Sharia Law on the Egyptian people.
As a result, massive
protests and violence erupted throughout Egypt.
And how did the Obama Administration respond?
By agreeing to send 20 F-16
fighter jets to Egypt as part of the $1 billion in U.S. taxpayer dollars
that are sent to Egypt each year for so-called "foreign aid."
Yes, I will repeat that!
The Pentagon handed over $213 million dollars' worth of top-notch F-16 fighter jets to a Muslim
Brotherhood-led government hell bent on imposing Sharia Law in Egypt.
The sad truth is that our policy of sending billions of
taxpayer dollars overseas for so-called "foreign aid" to countries that
hate us could end up becoming an international disaster.
Should
the troubles in Egypt spiral into a regional conflict with Israel, we
could find ourselves in the embarrassing position of supplying arms
and billions of dollars to both sides of a shooting war.
You and I MUST end this madness.
I'm will continue to lead
the fight to stop taxpayer dollars from flowing to anti-American regimes overseas.
And I'm counting on you to stand with me.
In Liberty,
Senator Rand Paul
P.S. The United
States is sending billions of dollars overseas in so-called "foreign
aid" to countries that are hell bent on undermining U.S. foreign
policy.
We must stop this insanity!
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