Who is U.S. government rooting for in Egypt

Hosni Mubarak is considered a U.S. ally, a friend in the war on terror and someone we can trust when dealing with Israel.

He’s also a brutal dictator.

Now, with unrest in the streets of Cairo and Mubarak cracking down, we will learn which value is more important to the American oligarchy. Are we committed to the spread of democracy or will we attempt to prop Mubarak up, if he seems to be teetering?

My suspicion is that, despite our grand democratic rhetoric, we will side with the dictator. This is just a gut feeling, but given that we attempted to shut down Hamas even after the organization won what most observers considered to be a fair election and that we seem to care little about who runs most countries unless they are under out control, I just don’t see democracy as our primary objective.

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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

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