Thousands March in Egyptian Capital Calling for President’s Ouster

[Paul Rigby]

The US as always is on the wrong side in these things.

It isn't, Jeffrey: It's on both the major ones, and doubtless more than that, as ever. Just because the State Department is behind the curve doesn't mean other elements of the US establishment are similarly slow-moving:

The U.S. government has been supporting leading figures behind the violent protests in Egypt in a bid to promote regime change, it has been revealed.

A 2008 diplomatic cable leaked by the WikiLeaks site outlines how the U.S. State Department supported a pro-democracy activist and lobbied for the release of dissidents from custody.

The unnamed activist presented an 'unwritten plan for democratic transition in 2011' at a summit in New York and met with U.S. members of congress.

One aspect of the plan was for 'a transition to a parliamentary democracy before the scheduled 2011 presidential elections', the Jerusalem Post reported.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...binet.html

The CIA put Khomeini in power, just as it did Castro twenty years before. And that's leaving to one side for a moment all those splendid "colour" revolutions in Eastern Europe and the Russian "Near Abroad."