The new timeline for a transition, according to a senior administration official, is … “over the medium term,” whatever that means. So what happens when you go from calling the regime “stable” while protesters are in the streets, then demanding an immediate transition while Mubarak vows to serve out the rest of his term, then falling back to “gradual” transition language when your new would-be client, i.e. Omar Suleiman, proves uncooperative? Well, this happens:
From Curt’s link:
What could be worse? Biden telling Suleiman to lift the emergency law. Suleiman responded that they wouldn’t they had over 17,000 criminals on the streets that has escaped from the prisons. Biden may not have been embarassed at that point, but we are.
I saw this at Gateway Pundit, pathetic, isn’t it:
Now Mubarak steps down, Obama is watching it all on television aboard AF1, what an idiot, did that need to be publicized? Makes him sound like an out of the loop, little geeky voyeur.
Hope the military holds and then we rinse and repeat, Tunsia, now Yemen and there’s a bit of noise starting in Saudia Arabia, nothing too big yet:
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre71942l-us-saudi-opposition/