Congratulating the dictator on his oppression: "US President Barack Obama met the crown prince of Bahrain Tuesday, as Washington backed the Sunni royal family's national dialogue to ease the political crisis in the Shiite majority kingdom. Obama dropped by a meeting between Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa and US National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, in a White House protocol mechanism used to allow the president to meet lower level officials." I like how in the US media they like to concoct a divide between father and son. How cute and convenient.