The DC pundits are seriously hopeless. They cannot escape the I-want-to-have-my-cake-and-eat-it-too mentality. They think somehow they can still sponsor the Mubarak’s regime and use it to serve the US interests in the region, while still pushing for “democracy” and winning the hearts of minds of the Arab people. How is it possible to reconcile supporting “the political and human rights of Egyptian citizens, while cooperating with the Egyptian government on diplomatic and security affairs”?

So the US govt will ask Mubarak to continue his siege on Gaza, but will ask him at the same time not to suppress the pro-Palestine protests in the country?!

You don’t need a PhD scholar to tell you how farce and delusional this approach is. The Mubarak’s dictatorship which enjoys sodomizing detainees and cracking young men’s skulls to death should not receive a singly cent from the US tax payers’ money.