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Friday, January 28, 2011

Where's Pinochet when our country needs him?

New York Times: "Democracy is Bad for US Foreign Policy"
by Stephen Gowans


Here’s New York Times reporter Mark Landler on Washington’s reaction to the popular uprising in Egypt against the anti-liberal democratic, human rights-abusing Hosni Mubarak, a “staunch ally.”

Washington is “proceeding gingerly, balancing the democratic aspirations of young Arabs with cold-eyed strategic and commercial interests.”

In other words, democracy and human rights are fine, but not when strategic and commercial interests are at stake.


Read more:
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22991

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