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Source: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/050314/usnews/14fouad.htm
A Sudden, Powerful Stirring
(US News)Fouad Ajami - Deep down we may have suspected Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak of double-dealing and bad faith in the diplomacy he pursued in the region, in the kind of official culture his regime spread in that surly, unhappy land. We suspected he was taking our dollars while nurturing a culture of anti-Americanism and antimodernism. But we tolerated that terrible bargain. We accepted with resignation that the Islamists were a worse alternative than the military regime.