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May 12, 2010       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/11/AR2010051104204.html

Will the Obama Administration Enable More of Hosni Mubarak's Autocracy?

(Washington Post) Editorial - Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak, who celebrated his 82nd birthday last week, arranged for his rubber-stamp parliament to extend, for another two years, the emergency law under which he has ruled since October 1981. Mubarak took advantage of the policy of the Obama administration, which has chosen to soft-pedal the cause of democracy and human rights in Egypt and across the Middle East. By using more of the U.S.' considerable diplomatic and economic leverage in Egypt, President Obama can still exploit a rare opportunity to support change in one of the Middle East's most important countries.

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