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Sunday, February 6, 2011

Haroon Siddiqui: Operating manual for a new Mideast (in the Toronto Star)

"Selectively supporting authoritarianism in the name of “stability” only guarantees mass unrest, instability, anti-Americanism and anti-Israeli sentiments, and risks long-term peace. You cannot have puppet regimes hammer their people into liking you. [my italics]

"Anything less than a commitment to a wholesale shift to democracy would prolong the dangerous standoff in Egypt, risk more lives and confirm suspicions that all Obama wants is to appease the masses but have Mubarak replaced by Gen. Suleiman, the former intelligence chief who presided over a regime of torture and who, not coincidentally, has been deemed an American asset post-9/11. He’d only be another Mubarak. This historic moment demands a complete break with the failed past."

Full article: Siddiqui: Operating manual for a new Mideast.

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