Are Egypt's times a changin'?

Asharq Al-Awsat correspondent Mona Eltahawy says, in a WaPo column, that despite the practically guaranteed success of Pres. Hosni Mubarak at the polls Sept. 7, democracy is on the march in Egypt. But it might not succeed if the USA doesn't keep its promise to promote change.

"The U.S. administration must not take its eyes off Egypt. It has exerted unprecedented pressure on the Mubarak regime, but everyone I spoke to in Cairo wondered just how serious the Bush administration was when it said that it would no longer follow a decades-old policy that favored stability and the support of dictators at the expense of democracy."

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