A big quadruple "duh" for that one...and if you somehow didn't believe it before, all you had to do was see our reaction to the protests in Egypt last week, back when we thought it might still blow over...the only time we're acknowledging the peaceful transition of power that should take place is after it's pretty clear that some sort of transition of power is imminent.

We really only support two kinds of Democracy in the Middle East...the kind where we call it Democracy, but it's really just an excuse for us to bomb the hell out of some country, and the kind that Turkey has, so long as Turkey continues to allow us to use their country and troops in our Gun Barrel Democracy.

Other than that, it's the old maxim..."Yeah, he's a sunuvabitch, but he's *our* sunuvabitch!"...

Fish on...

Todd