Daneil Shapiro is the Middle East expert at NSC. A man with no Middle East expertise, unless--as was the case with Elliott Abrams in the Bush administration--you count fanatic Zionist activism as Middle East expertise, and it is in Washington, DC. Look at this: "Daniel Shapiro, a White House Middle East adviser, met on Tuesday with American Jewish leader..." Look at this: the crisis is about an Arab country, and the Middle East expert at the White House decides to meet with American Jewish leader. Not with Egyptian-American leaders, but with American Jewish leaders. If I want to speak in sectarian terms, I would have said: he did not meet with American Copts or with American Muslims, but with American Jewish leaders. That says a lot about the prism in which the administration views the Middle East, does it not?