In Egypt, U.S. Weighs Push for Change With Stability

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/world/middleeast/08diplomacy.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper

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From: barry levine 
Date: Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 8:59 AM
Subject: re: In Egypt, U.S. Weighs Push for Change With Stability
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

    Omar Suleiman's offer that "the state of emergency will be lifted based on the security situation" is no offer at all.  Either the government is bound by the constitution and by law or it is not; one can always find an "emergency" if there is a motive to find an emergency. It is not for the U.S. to choose or to bless an Egyptian government, but we can put ourselves on the wrong side of history yet again by backing a man with a history of working with our CIA to torture innocents.

Barry Levine