[Wall Street Journal] Saad Eddin Ibrahim - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, 82, has been ruling Egypt for 28 years. He's received more than $50 billion in outright U.S. aid but has failed to deliver anything to his own people. He hasn't contributed an iota to regional peace beyond what his predecessor, the late Anwar Sadat, had already accomplished at Camp David 32 years ago. There has also been an exponential rise in sectarian violence against the Christian Copts. Since Mr. Obama's celebrated speech at Cairo University two months ago, there have been more than 40 attacks. Yet Mr. Mubarak has continued to get a free pass from the U.S. and has even received outright praise from senior members of the Obama administration. The tiny fraction of U.S. aid that is earmarked for Egypt's civil society is subject to the Mubarak regime's veto.
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