Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds

I see now that the White House is quietly supporting, if not actively aiding and abetting, Egypt in its efforts to become a nuclear power:

The White House on Monday said it had little information about Egypt's plans to relaunch its nuclear power program but declared itself "generally supportive" of civilian atomic power.

"I don't know a lot about it. In general, we are supportive of countries pursuing civil nuclear energy. It's clean burning. It provides electricity in a clean-burning and affordable way for citizens," said spokeswoman Dana Perino.

Curious, isn't it? One of the major reasons the White House always offers up for crumping Iran's efforts to do the same thing is that if anyone else in the Middle East gets nuclear power, then there will be an arms race throughout the area so everyone can get it. Why would Egypt be any different.

Furthermore, it's just what we need -- to have another unstable Arab government with a large underclass of unhappy militants get its hands on nuclear weapons. It's bad enough with Pakistan. Do we really need Egypt in that game?

Oh, I'm sorry. I understand now. Egypt only wants to get nuclear power to make electricity. Iran says they only want to make electricity, but, of course, they're not good guys like the Egyptians. They really want to make nukes. It's all clear now.