Lee Smith is a senior editor at the Weekly Standard and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. He is author of The Strong Horse: Power, Politics and the Clash of Arab Civilizations.
Sisi will likely change his military uniform for a suit and run for president, but that won’t make the country more stable
The Obama administration is right to suspend some but not all military aid. If only they could make that message clearer.
Al-Sisi’s recent decisionmaking suggests a character that is deeply flawed, rash and dangerous
They have lost all moral high ground by supporting the military’s violent crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood
The coup—and it was a coup—may well have extinguished Egypt’s experiment in democracy
