"What is ... very disappointing to the Egyptian people is the message coming from the U.S., which is saying that we are going to work with the Egyptian people and with the government," he said. "Well, you have to make a choice. This is an authoritarian government and on the other hand the people have been deprived of their freedom for 58 years." – Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian opposition leader, in an English interview with France24
Doesn't he know we only support democracy when it goes along with our foreign policy interests?
The whole world is watching what is happening now, and the next couple days will go a long way to determining the future of the region. We are all discussing the fact that 2011 seems to be the year of political uprisings - and we're not even done with January yet.
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