“Hatred of hypocrisy is an emotion that tends to occur throughout very different cultures. U.S. leaders do not help America’s reputation when they profess a commitment to freedom and democracy while they fawn over such allies as thuggish Egyptian dictators and the odious Saudi royal family. Victims of oppression were unlikely to take Washington’s alleged dedication to liberty seriously when they saw President George W. Bush strolling through the fields of his Texas ranch hand in hand with Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah as though they were intimate friends….”
Via Washington Is Too Cozy with Certain Dictators | Cato @ Liberty.