Another way to look at this...

Submitted by Mikey (United States), Feb 4, 2013 at 21:32

Egypt has to depend on America for F-16 mainteinance and spare parts.

In essence by Egypt flying F-16s, it gives us some additional leverage with them.

Same with Abrams tanks (which Egypt already builds for us)

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