Monday, November 17, 2008

Democracy? How childish and provincial for us to try to impose it!

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Tecumseh said...

The episode is significant because it demonstrates a principal conclusion that Mubarak and other "pro-Western" autocrats seem to have drawn from Obama's election: that the threat of U.S. pressure for political liberalization has passed. Eighty-year-old Mubarak, who has not visited the United States since 2003 because of resentment toward Bush, is convinced that the next president won't pester him about human rights, reports the Egyptian press. After all, in his message to the world on election night, Obama said: "To those who seek peace and security, we support you." Peace and security, in exchange for autocracy, is the bargain Mubarak has always offered Washington.

Versailles, Lenin, and Kissinger, all wrapped into one -- what a wonderful concoction Planet Pepe is.

11/17/2008 9:01 PM
Mr roT said...

Toilet.

11/17/2008 10:46 PM

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