US backs democracy, shock?


Issue 893 - 20 Jan 2011 | 1 minute read

Sarkozy has been forced to admit that Paris was too close to a tyrant, and other European and Arab states have been embarrassed by their relations with Ben Ali – even though, usually in private, many expressed distaste for his methods of rule.

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