Multiple Choice

Most of the time, the options are not optimal in deciding whether or not to support a foreign government and that results in the type of predicament the U.S State Department finds itself now with the situation in Egypt. But somewhere along the line after the emergency laws invoked there following the Sadat assassination, reviews of whether to continue support should have depended upon elimination of the emergency contingency. To let this exist for three decades and not anticipate what has eventually evolved, doesn't compute. What is the job of State if not to have thinkers that can foresee such possibility and what to do to prevent same.

Too often the U.S finds itself stuck with a choice that should have had more points of review and added conditions that should have been met for aid to continue.

How many more Saddam Husseins and Hosni Mubaraks are on the horizon?



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