Eric Margolis' spew does not seem at all rational or balanced.

I think the title "American Raj" says it all. The man is an idiot if he does not see that America does not rule Egypt. It is bribing Egypt's government with billions per year of my tax money so that it will not attack Israel. Personally I think that money could be better spent on just about anything else.

>>In yet another example of shameless hypocrisy, State Secretary Hillary Clinton urges "restraint" on both sides. One supposes she means those being beaten by clubs, raped, or tortured by electric drills must show proper restraint. <<

No useful idiot, this one supposes she (Mrs Clinton) means that the Army should not shoot people down like the National Guard did at Kent State and that the civilians should not loot and destroy infrastructure and precious cultural treasures as they did in Iraq under the George Bush/Haliburton occupation.