By Andrew L. Jaffee

Egypt didn’t support the U.S.-led liberation of Iraq from Saddam’s horrors. But Egyptian President Mubarak now recognizes that a premature withdrawal of American troops would be disastrous. From Swiss Radio International:

The Egyptian leader warned against an immediate U.S. troop withdrawal.

“Now? It would be a disaster … It would become an arena for a brutal civil war and then terrorist operations would flare up not just in Iraq, but in very many places.”