Aljazeera<\/em> de pr\u00e9f\u00e9rence<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abThe chaos on the streets of Cairo has raised the stakes even higher for President Barack Obama underlining Washington’s powerlessness to shape events, and raising the spectre of the US having to deal with a close ally whose regime it has disowned, but which uses violence to survive, temporarily at least.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbAs clashes between anti- and pro-Mubarak supporters intensified yesterday, with the outcome utterly unclear, the White House deplored and condemned the violence, and expressed its outrage at the attacks on peaceful demonstrators and the media. It was \u00ab\u00a0imperative\u00a0\u00bb the violence stopped, Robert Gibbs, Mr Obama’s spokesman, said, urging restraint on all sides.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbIn reality, those words merely underline the helplessness of the administration, at this point reduced to watching TV like everyone else, and keeping its fingers crossed about how events unfold in Egypt most immediately but also in other friendly countries in the region, most notably Saudi Arabia and Jordan.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThat was another sign that Mr Obama’s room for manoeuvre has been further reduced, now he has thrown the weight of the US publicly behind the demonstrators demanding change, and signalling that President Mubarak’s concession that he would step down at September’s election did not go far enough. An orderly transition must be meaningful, it must be peaceful and it must begin now, the US President said, hours after the Egyptian leader had spoken on Tuesday. The operative word was now, officials here added, making even clearer where Mr Obama stood.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbNow however Mr Mubarak appears to have called that bluff. In a final gambit to retain power, he seems to have called out his supporters on the streets in a plainly orchestrated attempt to dislodge the tens of thousands of protesters who for a week have been demonstrating peacefully for an end to his regime presenting it as a spontaneous response by ordinary citizens who have had enough of the disorder. If the government instigated the violence, that must stop, Robert Gibbs, the White House, spokesman said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe move may be wholly cynical. But the net result has been to leave the US scrambling to find a coherent response to events that change day by day, even hour to hour. Its basic problem though has been the same even before the crisis erupted: how to preserve a key national security alliance in the Middle East, yet get on the right side of history<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n
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