Just to flush the few remaining shreds of Arab Spring's credibility down the commode of history, Omar Suleiman, Mubarak's former chief of intelligence and torture, has announced his candidacy to become the next President of Egypt!
I imagine there's a fair bit of high-fiving going on in the beltway think-tanks. After all, a torturer in chief is the kind of guy we can work with. And if he can succeed in cloaking himself in the mantle of democratic legitimacy, well, so much the better!
Otherwise, we'd be stuck having to make the best of a bad bargain with the Islamist crowd (regular or extra-strength) or those so-called "liberals", which is of course the worst of the worst-case scenarios.
Hell, that bunch might even try to implement the "will of the people."
And where would our Middle East policy be if that happened?
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