JEFF JACOBY: No room at the table. Jacoby is writing specifically on Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood, but two comments bear thinking about more generally.

Free and democratic societies take chances.... They give citizens the power to elect their rulers ... and the possibility that voters will choose officials who are corrupt or incompetent.

The 2008 Presidential election, anyone?

Democracy is flexible, but even in the best of circumstances it is incompatible with religious totalitarianism.

The same can be said for secular totalitarianism.