Comment: They don’t hate your freedoms
07 Feb 2011, 10:17 AM
Yameen Rasheed
In his landmark speech at Cairo University in June 2009, US President Barack Obama announced that “No system of government can or should be imposed upon one nation by any other”.
It was an apparent departure from the aggressive foreign policy of his predecessor, George W Bush, who was an advocate of revolutionary change in the Middle East, having stated in a 2005 speech that the United States would no longer “tolerate oppression for the sake of stability”.
Nevertheless, American commitment to its much-touted democratic values has always been a grey area – and the question has once again come to the fore in the wake of the ongoing Egyptian uprising.
The embattled current Egyptian dictator, Hosni Mubarak, reigned for over 30 years – supported and funded by the United States.
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