Next?
I have it on good authority that Steven Hadley, the director of the US National Security Council, called the President of the Italian senate to asked if he had a candidate to replace Bashar al-Asad as President of Syria. The Italians were horrified. Italy is one of Syria’s biggest trading partners so it seemed a reasonable place to ask! This is what Washington has been up to.
Het patroon komt bekend voor. De VS zetten er eerst via de VN druk op.
En als er dan geen gehoor komt, begint mogelijk de militaire opbouw.
Of zouden ze toch voorzichtiger zijn geworden?
Niet allemaal natuurlijk, maar volgens 

I couldn’t believe what I heard. People chanting “down Hosni Mubarak” right in downtown Cairo and right in front of a symbol of the government’s huge back breaking bureaucracy, the mogamaa building! Anyway, that convention or campaign rally will never get erased from my memory. It was a clear indication that something is definitely changing in Egypt.