What’s Politically Correct About Opposing Hosni Mubarak?

I don’t have much sympathy for a regime that unleashes its own goons against peaceful protestors in an attempt to foment chaos as part of a strategy designed, one imagines, to leave the “silent majority” craving something, anything that restores order and “stability” to Egyptian society.

But it seems that’s just another example of political correctness run amok. According to some, anyway. Such as our old friend Con Coughlin. Con, typically, takes a robust view of the Egyptian uprising:

At the risk of provoking the wrath of the politically correct lobby that wants to see wholesale reform of the Middle East, I am starting to feel rather sorry for Hosni Mubarak.

For thirty years this proud, Egyptian patriot, who fought with distinction in his country’s bitter wars with Israel, has devoted his life to serving his country’s best interests. A lot of people, particularly those advising US President Barack Obama, seem to forget that, when Mr Mubarak came to power in 1981, his country teetered on the brink of collapse after the charismatic Anwar Sadat was murdered by Islamic militants for daring to sign a peace treaty with Israel.