The lesser evil

White House Move to Give Egypt $450 Million in Aid Meets Resistance

Given we are going to keep meddling in the region at all – and we really ought to just leave – meddling thus is a much lesser evil than meddling in a worse mess in Egypt and maybe a new Muslim war on Israel.

Hillary’s point, of course, is similar with regard to the regimes in Libya and Tunisia.

And so is mine.