| Kasz216 said: That is completely false. The US supported him vs a power vacuum/other dictatorship. However they're preference has aways been a Democracy. (Well since the end of the cold war.) Hell it's been the stated preference, and the US has funded and created MANY democratic instutitions in Egypt. Ever since the end of the Cold War the US policy has been to greatly urge their middleastern allies to make more and more democratic reforms and eventually give up power. As soon as the protests started Obama was talking to Mubarak telling him to stand down. Before there was any indication the protests would succeed. Washington Officials were giving the army full support in their upheavel. (the second in command was actually in washinton at the time.) This was more or less EXACTLY what the US wanted. To believe otherwise is to be completely ignorant of middle eastern foreign policy and be stuck in an outdated BS Cold War mindset. This is basically exactly the right way to foster democracy in nations with dictators. |
I'm not saying that America was anti-democracy. They just wanted slowly introduced democracy under a stable dictatorship. America was pro-reform, but they were anti-revolution.
The American government at the start of the protests were calling for Mubarak to implement the reforms, not for him to stand down. Even late in the piece they were very tepid on the idea, and never called for it directly.
