Time to break from Middle East dictators

Published February 2, 2011

What's happening in Egypt and across the Middle East is unprecedented. Scenes like this we have not seen since the 1979 revolution in Iran. Equally clear is that the American-led Western model of dealing with the Arab world is broken.

Talking democracy and propping up dictatorships is no longer sustainable. Nor is Washington's tightrope walk, "standing by" the hated Hosni Mubarak regime while talking...

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