They’re quite bad enough without lying about it

The Middle East: All Bad Choices

Hanson writes,

A day late and a dollar short, we piggybacked on the Arab Spring in Egypt, damning the damnable Mubarak without much thought of who or what would take his place.

The result is that a kleptocratic dictatorship gave way to a one-vote/one-time Muslim Brotherhood theocracy — and then full circle back to the familiar strongmen with epaulets and sunglasses.

That bolded accusation has appeared in several pieces in NR and elsewhere in conservative media.

One vote one time?

I am not aware of any solid evidence that the government of Morsi, with or without help in the streets from the Muslim Brotherhood, was about to replace democracy with either outright dictatorship of the customary Egyptian presidency for life.

Maybe I missed it.

Which is not to say I had not read of Morsi's departures from constitutional rectitude.

Documenting the atrocities of the Brotherhood unbound, NR has been agitating for more forthright American support for the generals, against the Brotherhood.