Democracy Double Talk
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Re “Mass Uzbekistan Arrests Reported,” May 17: A tyrant with one of the world’s worst human rights records massacres hundreds of pro-democracy demonstrators and our “moral clarity” president urges both victims and the U.S.-subsidized perpetrators to “exercise restraint.”
I guess the Bush administration overlooked the existence of roses, cedars and oranges in Uzbekistan; nevertheless, the true nature of American “support” for democracy is yet again revealed for those few in the Muslim world and the many more deluded ones in the West who didn’t already suspect.
Mujeeb R. Khan
Berkeley
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