You hit the nail on the head about the drawbacks of public diplomacy via intermediaries.
last week, Biden spoke a lot, as did Kerry. And Gibbs lecturing Mubarak.
And how impotent does Obie look - demands Mubarak leave, but Mubarak cracks down and tells Obie he don’t know camel poop.
It’s like he dared Obie, what’re you gonna do, invade Egypt?
Remember the kinder diplomacy that duhbummer and Kerry promoted..