Standing by your dictators

"But U.S. officials pointedly have not condemned a decision by Saudi Arabia and other neighbors to send tanks and troops into Bahrain, or Bahrain's subsequent declaration of a state of emergency. In television interviews with CNN and CBS, Clinton said the intervening countries were merely "on the wrong track" and urged Bahrain's rulers and the demonstrators to resume negotiations - a prospect that seemed highly remote as the crisis escalated."  But the premise of the article is false: that the US stands by Middle East monarchies while it did not do the same with the pro-US republics.  It stood by Mubarak to the very end and he was asked to implement "reforms" merely to save him.