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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/12/AR2011021200483.html
The Upsides of Egypt's Revolution
(Washington Post) Jackson Diehl - Imagine an Egypt that consistently opposes the West in international forums while relentlessly campaigning against Israel. A government that seeds its media with vile anti-Semitism and locks relations with Israel in a cold freeze. A regime that allows Hamas to import tons of munitions and Iranian rockets into Gaza. That would be the government of Hosni Mubarak - the same one that the U.S. propped up with tens of billions of dollars in aid, at the cost of tarnishing America's image. If Egypt now makes a transition to genuine democracy, its foreign policy might not get much better from Washington's point of view. But it is unlikely to get worse.