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Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/8680116/Egypt-after-Mubarak.html
Egypt after Mubarak
(Telegraph-UK) Editorial - The demeaning spectacle of a sick 83-year-old in a hospital bed being wheeled into a cage in a court of law had overtones of a Soviet-era show trial. Many warned at the time of Mubarak's downfall that the Arab Spring could produce results inimical to Western interests. This was a man who not only presided over a moderate, secular state, but had also proved a reliable ally of the West in a politically volatile region. Regardless of the outcome of the November elections, we must start getting used to the idea that the Arab world's most populous country might not in the future be any of these things.