"And it’s hard. It’s hard going from decades under one-party or one-man
rule, as somebody said, waking up from a political coma and
understanding democracy." Well, I would maintain that the US and not the Egyptian people was in a state of coma. The US and not the Egyptian people were in denial about the true nature of the Sadat-Mubarak regime. No, in fact they were not in denial: they knew full well what they were doing against the Egyptian people.