Obama came out yesterday and basically said that Mubarak needs to stay in power through the transition. I'm not sure what prompted that - pressure from Israel, the military, who knows. But the timing couldn't have been worse. Today, the response to all of the pressure, including from Obama, to save Mubarak for the moment, the Egyptian people had the biggest march yet demanding his resignation.

On top of that, it finally creeped into the mainstream news that hundreds of Mubarak protesters have been killed in the protests rather than the handful that had been reported. Not a good day for the US to be perceived as fudging on support for the pro-democracy reformers.

And on top of that, an academic author who has written extensively about the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt was interviewed today on Fresh Air. He pointed out that the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Quaeda did not get along, and that this was well known. Yet, in spite of that, the mainstream media still keeps reporting that if the Muslim Brotherhood gets in power that all hell might break loose. That simply is not true.

When are we going to learn? Our foreign policy has a history of being terrible and doesn't seem to be changing. Too bad. I think that most of the citizens of the world would welcome our support. Instead it goes to a few rich and powerful who don't seem to care much about the well being and human rights of everyone else.