Egypt Fights For Freedom - Part 3

America has been supporting Egypt's regime for 30 years. It appears to be in our best interest to keep this tyrant in power instead of some other tyrant, when of course the best answer is not to keep any tyrants in power at all. The US has a history, a recent history actually, so maybe it came along with all of the overreaching government power, to support dictators around the world, even if they have terrible human rights records, in order to foster trade with these nations.

Look at China, Egypt, Syria, Somalia: there are a ton of countries where we either actively keep the tyrants in office directly, or support them indirectly by buying their goods and keeping their regimes running. Whatever happened to the Bush "fight against tyranny everywhere", a fight which he talked about but never took to anyone but Saddam Hussein.

So what do we do? We support the people of course. But in the vacuum created by the deposement of this leader, will the possibly even more oppressive Muslim Brotherhood step in? Many pundits are saying thats a bad thing - I think thats a gut reaction. We don't really know what will happen. But if Egypt does not get a freer society and more democracy, it will be all for nothing.

Coming up: how Egypt and America are not that different.