Reply #49: Sorry to have to disappoint you again.

[sabrina 1]

U.S. policy is to keep Mubarak in power. Even President Carter admits that:

Carter says 'people have decided' in Egypt: report

"The United States wants Mubarak to stay in power, but the people have decided," said the 86-year-old Carter, calling the unprecedented protests "earth shaking."

Earlier Sunday, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for an "orderly transition" and "real democracy" in Egypt but stopped short of demanding Mubarak step down.

Sunday, that was yesterday. Still unwilling to withdraw support for the dictator.

Overthrow him? What are you talking about? There was no need to overthrow him. The people were doing a good job of that. The last elections in Egypt were so corrupt that he never should have been accepted as a legitimate leader by any Western nation.

However, once the people rose up against him, and considering all the evidence of corruption there is available on Mubarak's regime, all the U.S. had to do was to announce that since the people had spoken the U.S. would be withdrawing support, including financial support. That was the statement everyone was waiting for. It still has not happened.

As for your last hyperbolic and childish statement, all I can I do is point out the obvious, you project too much. I am not especially interested in defending politicians when they disappoint me. I can handle the disappointment. You otoh, have a difficult time facing the fact that politicians will disappoint us. Our job is not to defend THEM, it is to defend this country.