When it comes to foreign policy and the U.S. government’s imperial and interventionist role in the world, it is sometimes difficult to determine which faction of statists — liberal or conservative — is the more hypocritical and morally blind.
Consider the following editorial in today’s New York Times entitled “The U.S. Should Not Be Egypt’s Accomplice.” When I read that title, my immediate reaction was, “Okay, this is going to be a solid editorial calling on the U.S. government to stop partnering with and supporting, especially with money and weaponry, the brutal, tyrannical military dictatorship that has long ruled Egypt.
As I began reading through the editorial, it was clear to me that the Times’s editorial board does recognize that the Egyptian regime is, in fact, a tyrannical regime.
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