Dear President Obama, What does justice in Libya look like?

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25. Comparing Mubarak to the Khalifa Royal Family is just not on.

You're talking entirely different governmental systems. Mubarak was Sadat's heir, in essence, but their connection was that they came up in the military together. Egypt had a "tradition" of military rule ever since King Farouk was toppled by Naguib, Nasser, et. al. and waddled off into exile.

The Khalifas have a royal imprimatur that is historical, generational, and has been acknowleged by the population for well over a century, and is still recognized even those who oppose their rule. You'd be better off comparing them to the House of Saud.

The world is full of "people" who don't like what their governments do. When they get sufficiently irritated, they change the dynamic. Sometimes that works out. Other times, it's "the devil you know." Ask the population of Iran, most of whom are far too young to remember life (and relative liberty--to include rights for women) under that Shah guy. Those young adults and kids look at old pictures of their fathers/grandfathers in their disco shirts, and their mothers/grandmothers in hot pants and miniskirts, attending co-ed classes at the Uni of Tehran, and who knows what they think?

All they know is that they'll not live like that, at least not anytime soon.