(New Yorker) David Remnick - Rather than take the democratizing cue from Bush, Mubarak's regime has offered itself as an example to the U.S.: Spare us the pretense of an open society, its leaders imply. For twenty-three years, power and its maintenance has been Mubarak's obsession. Over the years, tens of thousands of Islamists and other political opponents have passed through the jails, usually without trial or charge. Mubarak has always proved himself ready to employ maximum force to quell protest or unrest, and in time, Mubarak wore down the Islamist movement in Egypt.
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