Over the past 30 years, Egypt has received more than $1 billion in aid. With the current regime consistently failing to be stable enough to keep its leader in power and government confidence at an all-time low, we are forced to examine what this aid actually provides. Throughout this essay, I will guide you through the logistics of distributing aid programs of such magnitude, the impact, and why this practice is detrimental, failing to help Egyptian American citizens, nor the profits, nor the desires of the United States in their daily lives. We have no activity in their country and they have no activity in our pockets; When this bond is broken, both parties will be better off. To understand U.S. involvement in Egypt, we must first examine where aid is spent. Every year the United States is supposed to send $1.3 billion in military aid, with this money it chooses its own technology and weapons. But according to government officials, it is the U.S. government that decides exactly which weapons will be sent to Egypt. Officials complain that Egypt often receives weapons that are not as advanced as those sent to neighboring countries like Israel. Leaving their armies obsolete and less secure than the countries around them. As Egypt does not choose where military aid is spent, this has led to a massive stockpile of weapons that it no longer needs, or already has enough of. Including the shipment of more than 1,000 tanks, worth $3.9 billion, as well as several thousand Soviet-era tanks. This is ridiculously excessive, there is no possible scenario where they would need all these tanks before WWIII. So they continue to remain in crates in warehouses, unopened, never to be used. This is also the case for the F-16 fighter jets sent to Egypt. “Although recently Obama ordered... middle of paper ......ted. Albert Einstein described insanity as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. This seems to be America's problem, we seem to be afraid to leave the situation for fear of changing what has been long established. But what do we have to gain, other countries already look down on us, we already have enough military force to assert our will in a region if we absolutely have to, and private charities have done a much better job over the years providing humanitarian work as governments. I could never do it. It is time for us to stop all aid to Egypt, thereby distancing ourselves from its internal conflict and giving the Egyptian people control of their own Egypt. And not just with Egypt, but with all nations, we need to start letting them stand on their own two feet, because always carrying them only hinders them in the end..