THE wave of violence directed at Americans and Europeans in the Middle East and elsewhere in the Muslim world has had two particularly malign effects. First, it has made many Westerners, especially Americans, wonder why they and their governments should seek to play a constructive role in those parts of the world where people apparently harbour such visceral feelings of hatred towards them. Second, it has cast a dismal light on the new leadership of Egypt, the Arab region’s most populous and pivotal country.

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