Indeed, in justifying his refusal to condemn the dropping of charges against Mubarak, Sisi seemed to take a page from Obama’s own rhetorical playbook. Egypt must “look to the future” and “cannot ever go back,” he said when cynically invoking judicial independence as his reason for not condemning the pro-Mubarak ruling. The parallels to Obama’s own justifications for not prosecuting U.S. torturers and other war criminals – “we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards” - are self-evident. Every criminal wants to look forward. Because if you can look forward, you can hide your heinous crimes. Looking forward has nothing to do with overlooking past crimes. So the project of restoring Mubarak completed its full circle. Hilary Clinton considers the murderer and one of the most vicious tyrant as personal friend. Sisi will give Mubarak a run for his money actually. Even Sisi friendly New york times editorial has this little gem: “Egypt today is in many ways more repressive than it was during the darkest periods of the reign of deposed strongman Hosni Mubarak.”
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 08:01:27 +0000
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