In the past two days, I have been stunned and awed by the news coming out of Egypt. It was so inspiring to watch the Egyptian people defying their tyrannical government this morning, defying the curfew and bravely attacking the Interior Ministry (home of the hated police forces) in spite of armed policemen guarding it. What wasn't inspiring was the diplomatic response to Egypt's moment. This morning on CNN one of the anchors was interviewing a former U.S. Ambassador to Israel. She posed the question to him, "How do we stop this?" and that surely he agreed that it had to be stopped. He nodded, adding that the U.S. is walking a fine line right now, not wanting to throw such a good ally as Hosni Mubarak under the bus but aware that he must change. The Ambassador informed the viewing public that the U.S. has supported Mubarak while urging reform since 1992. Hardly the inspirational moment that I had hoped to get from the diplomatic corps. This is the wrong angle to ...
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