The article didn't mention the billions of Dollars that (for example) Egyptian dictators have been getting every year to keep the Egyptian people under the boot and to make sure they don't push Israel to end its military occupation or to allow the Palestinian refugees to return.

Egypt is the 2nd highest recipient of US aid after Israel. The 1000+ civilians that the Egyptian military regime has killed were killed with US-made bullets and were showered with US-made teargas canisters, the armored cars they were run over with were US-made and paid for by us American taxpayers.

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5309.htm "U.S. military aid to Egypt totals over $1.3 billion annually."

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/jan-june11/biden_01-... "JOE BIDEN: Look, Mubarak has been an ally of ours in a number of things and he's been very responsible on, relative to geopolitical interests in the region: Middle East peace efforts, the actions Egypt has taken relative to normalizing the relationship with Israel.

And I think that it would be -- I would not refer to him as a dictator."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0AUd8U_8jY 'Egypt bullets made in US' January 2011

http://publicintelligence.net/u-s-tear-gas-rubber-bullets-su... U.S. Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets Suppress Peaceful Uprisings Around the World June 30, 2011

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/21/tahrir-square-us... US firm's teargas used against Tahrir Square protesters

Egypt's military junta fired CS gas cartridges made by Combined Systems Inc of Pennsylvania, say demonstrators

The story of the murdered civilians of Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Israel/Palestine and Bahrain is the same; American taxpayers' money is used to fund the brutal dictatorships as long as the dictators are willing to follow orders. Same story, different faces, different numbers. As long as they are "Our sons of bitches."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastasio_Somoza_García Though the Somozas were generally regarded as ruthless dictators, the United States continued to support them as a non-communist stronghold in Nicaragua. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) supposedly remarked in 1939 that "Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch."[4][5][6]

Edit: The only country that gets more aid than the Egyptian junta is Israel which gets more than $3 billion in military aid as well as diplomatic shielding for its nukes (as opposed to Iran which is an NPT-signatory, has the right to civilian nuclear power and is under sanctions since 1979 when they kicked out the US-installed dictator Raza Shah Pehlvi who was installed in the 1953 coup carried out by CIA and MI6), diplomatic shielding against any UN resolutions against its 40+ years old military occupation and 60+ years of denial of right of return to the UN-registered 1948 non-Jewish refugees that made up about 65% of the country until 1947 and many more billions of dollars in the form of direct and indirect subsidies (google up if you're curious, US has used some 40 vetoes in UN since 1970, almost all of them to protect Israeli occupation). Democrats and Republicans agree; no money for grandpa's healthcare or student loan bailouts but we'll fund and arm the butchers of Israel, Egypt, Saudi, Yemen and more.