Tuesday, February 8, 2011

"Obama's pressure on Mubarak could cost US regional influence"

By Howard LaFranchi

"President Obama has shifted increasingly over the past week toward the demand by Egypt's anti-regime protesters that President Hosni Mubarak resign immediately.

And as he has, a nagging question has dogged White House deliberations: What will be the impact on relations in the region — and on vital American interests — if the over-arching perception among leaders is of the US abandoning a longtime friend?"

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