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The unraveling of US Mideast policy

Future of Freedom Foundation Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

02/03/11

The blow to U.S. foreign policy by the popular uprising in Egypt cannot be overstated. The Egyptians? demand that Hosni Mubarak, who has ruled Egypt with an iron hand and billions of American taxpayer dollars, step down is unquestionably a major setback to the U.S. governing class and its plans for the Middle East. Since the end of World War II, critics of U.S. policy have warned that defying the people of the region in favor of authoritarian ruling elites was doomed to failure...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1102a.asp



Neither justice nor stability

Independent Institute Independent Institute
by Alvaro Vargas Llosa

Rhetorical calls for democratic reform notwithstanding, the United States and Europe have backed and funded corrupt Arab dictatorships because they seemed a better rampart against the tidal waves of Islamic fundamentalism than any alternative. Arab dictatorships, of course, achieved neither justice nor stability...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2979


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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