"“When the U.S. decides to just give away the military aid to Egypt without considering the consequences on us,” Okail told me, “it sends a message that the West and the U.S. don’t care about democracy and human rights. They just care about strategic stability." Ms. Okail: you may be the only one in Egypt who has thought that the US cares about democracy and human rights. Other Arabs are much wiser and less naive (or less sinister).