Folks -
I posted the following comment in response to a New York Times editorial. If you like it and agree with the message, I'd appreciate it if you would click through to the NYTimes.com page and click "recommend."
Thanks,
Sanjeev Bery
Freedom Forward
Readers' Comments: "Egypt’s Agonies," New York Times editorial
Link.
Sanjeev Bery
Cambridge, MA
February 4th, 2011
A growing number of US-backed dictatorships are now being challenged by their Arab citizens. In some countries, the dictators are "presidents," like Mubarak. In others, they are kings, whose "royal" families were once empowered with the blessings of a dying British empire.
So far, the Obama Administration is sending reassuring messages to most of these autocratic rulers. It is only once protests reach a tipping point that our own government switches sides -- as in the cases of Egypt and Tunisia.
As US citizens and taxpayers, it is time for us to start asking some tough questions. The world's most powerful democracy ought to be on the side of those who also want freedom. We should not be investing our tax dollars in the autocrats and dictators who oppress them.
Sanjeev Bery
Executive Director
Freedom Forward
http://freedomforward.org