“We support dictators for years and years and spent billions of dollars then of course when we’re getting tired of them then we’re looking for new dictators,” Paul said in an interview with Infowars.com.
“This craziness in Egypt, we demand that they have an election. They elected someone we don’t like and then we have to send the weapons to the military and then they have a military coup,” he added.
Egypt has been gripped by deadly violence since the military ousted Mohamed Morsi, the country’s first democratically-elected president, on July 3.
The Obama administration has refused to suspend its annual 1.5 billion dollars aid to Egypt despite condemning the bloody violence in the country.
Under US law, financial assistance to any country whose elected head of state is deposed in a military coup is prohibited. The White House has shied away from calling Morsi’s ouster a military coup.
“We continue to finance our enemies and our friends and then our friends become our enemies and nobody knows whose side they’re on,” Paul said. “There is always this flip-flopping.”
The former Republican congressman also said that last year’s incident in Benghazi was an arms deal to al-Qaeda.
“We have the direct evidence that they [CIA] were in Benghazi and one of the reasons that our ambassador was there because he was sending weapons directly to a group of people that we wanted to overthrow Assad in Syria but we sent it to al-Qaeda,” he said.
The Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, left four Americans dead, including US Ambassador Chris Stevens.
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