Robert Gibbs on the Egyptian events:<\/p>\n
via Al Jazeera:<\/p>\n
Has Obama spoken to\u00c2\u00a0Mubarak? — Gibbs is blithering: a “national security memo” has been given to the Prez, a meeting was held. But, no, they haven’t spoken.<\/p>\n
Does the Prez stand by his Egyptian buddy? — Gibbs says this is “not about picking a person.” We are very concerned.” Again the moral equivalence: both the government and <\/em>“the protesters need to refrain from violence.” We’re for democracy, freedom, etc., etc.<\/p>\n Gibbs: “We will be reviewing our assistance posture based on events that take place in the coming days.”<\/p>\n Is the revolution spreading across the Middle East: “We’re monitoring this. You have different countries, different circumstances, I don’t want to generalize.” You bet he doesn’t.<\/p>\n What about the military in the streets of Egypt’s cities? Is that good?\u00c2\u00a0 Gibbs: “Restraint.\u00c2\u00a0 Restaint.\u00c2\u00a0 Restraint.”<\/p>\n What about reports of gun battles between the police and the military? Gibbs: “I don’t want to get into that.” You bet he doesn’t.<\/p>\n What about conversations with our allies? Gibbs: “A number of meetings have been held, but I am unaware of any calls that have been made.”<\/p>\n Why doesn’t the Prez pick up the phone and call\u00c2\u00a0 Mubarak? Gibbs: More Gibbering…..<\/p>\n Notable here: no expression of support for Mubarak. Is an aid cut-off next? Don’t hold your breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Robert Gibbs on the Egyptian events: via Al Jazeera: Has Obama spoken to\u00c2\u00a0Mubarak? — Gibbs is blithering: a “national security memo” has been given to the Prez, a meeting was held. But, no, they haven’t spoken. Does the Prez stand by his Egyptian buddy? — Gibbs says this is “not about picking a person.” We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9002,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9001\/revisions\/9002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9001"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}