America's "Moderate Arab Ally"

The description of the grainy video sounds like it could be referring to a horror movie:

The man in the video lies on the floor on his back, naked from the waist down, with his feet hoisted into the air, surrounded by pairs of anonymous black boots.

The camera captures an act of brutality before zooming in until the man's face, scrunched with agony, fills the frame. He cries out for mercy from his tormentors, but within seconds the words give way to screams of desperation. The abuse continues, and the camera holds steady

The video, which made its way around YouTube, exposes the harsh reality of Egypt's many Abu Ghraibs. Torture remains a huge problem there, both as a means of silencing dissent and as of collective punishment. Egypt deserves better than such regimes. When will American policy reflect human rights? The problem actually is that America's biggest allies follow its lead, torturing and victimizing people as a basis for ruling them.