Egypt is a freedom fight

Published January 29, 2011 5:00am ET



Addressing a torn Egypt, contested-president Mubarak just told Al Jazeera: “I will always be on the side of the poor.”

As private jets flee a burning Cairo, it seems that all but the poor have done whatever they can to leave. Which recalls one banal truth to politics:

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