“Mubarak’s response provides a graphic illustration of America’s slow decline from its status as the world’s sole superpower to a position where it is unable to decisively influence events in Egypt”
Um, no. It’s a graphic illustration that our foreign policy is being run by the Apple Dumpling Gang who can’t make up their mind.
“Since the uprising began, the Obama administration has shifted from solidly supporting Mubarak, to suggesting a few days later that he should go now, only to back him at the weekend to remain in office until the autumn – a decision that the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, reversed hours later when she threw US support behind the Egyptian vice-president, Omar Suleiman.”
See what I mean, Vern?
Obama is dancing to Soros’s fiddle.