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What Obama Should Have Said

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There was a lot to like in President Obama’s statement Thursday about the calamity in Egypt. He walked a crucial line between calling on Egypt to return to “a democratic path,” while also implicitly acknowledging that democracy and liberal democracy are two very different things.

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