THE PAUSE THAT REPRESSES:

Report: Obama Sends Advisor Malley to Cozy Up to Egypt and Syria (Gil Ronen, 11/09/08, IsraelNN.com)

According to a report on Middle East Newsline, President-elect Barack Obama has dispatched his "senior foreign policy adviser", Robert Malley to Egypt and Syria to outline Obama's policy on the Middle East.

Malley reportedly relayed a promise from Obama that the United States would seek to enhance relations with Cairo and reconcile differences with Damascus.

"The tenor of the messages was that the Obama administration would take into greater account Egyptian and Syrian interests," an aide to Malley was quoted as saying.

Helping dictators oppress their people may seem like a good way to keep them quiet, but it never works in the long run and makes you complicit in evil.

Posted by Orrin Judd at November 9, 2008 7:10 PM