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Moral Bankruptcy, Left and Right

• fff.org by Jacob G. Hornberger

Consider the following editorial in today's New York Times entitled "The U.S. Should Not Be Egypt's Accomplice." When I read that title, my immediate reaction was, "Okay, this is going to be a solid editorial calling on the U.S. government to stop partnering with and supporting, especially with money and weaponry, the brutal, tyrannical military dictatorship that has long ruled Egypt.

As I began reading through the editorial, it was clear to me that the Times's editorial board does recognize that the Egyptian regime is, in fact, a tyrannical regime.

Egypt has long been ruled by an unelected military dictatorship, which, in and of itself, connotes tyranny. But it is certainly not a benign tyranny. When it violently ousted the democratically elected president of the country — the man who Egyptian voters had elected in a national presidential election — the dictatorship then proceeded to arrest him, round up his supporters, and jail or kill them without any semblance of due process of law.


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