Better a thousand years of authoritarianism and not one year of anarchy

Michael Widlanski summarizes the disaster that is Egypt. The Arabs have a saying: Alf sanna istibdaad, wa la-sanna fawda. "Better a thousand years of authoritarianism and not one year of anarchy." What we now see in Egypt is the result of one year of anarchy, helped by President Barack Obama.Obama made a dramatic speech in Cairo in 2009 in which he courted the Muslim Brotherhood, thus