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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Obama's Shift on Egypt

Obama's Shift on Egypt
Stephen Zunes, Truthout: "There has been a major shift within the Obama administration over the weekend regarding its policy toward Egypt. President Obama appears to have finally realized that reform within the regime, as the administration had been advocating until Sunday, will not placate the Egyptian people. The administration has yet to issue an explicit call for the authoritarian President Hosni Mubarak to step down, at least in public. However, yesterday, for the first time, Secretary of State Clinton and other officials began calling for 'an orderly transition' to democracy."
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