Hypocrites East and West

The beauty of the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia is that they belong to no one and to everyone; they are truly popular uprisings.  And yet everyone is falling over themselves to hypocritically claim them as their own.  When was the last time you saw the US government and Hizbullah agree on anything? Here is a partial parade of hypocrites:

• The US government, belatedly coming to the side of demonstrators after the man they propped up to the tune of 1.5 billion dollar a year crumbled
• American analysts and journalists who routinely added the adjective "moderate Arab leader" when referring to Mubarak; now they refer to him as "our SOB".  You see, they knew all along that he was an SOB, but because he was pliable and played nice with Israel, they turned a blind eye to his SOB qualities, the Egyptian people be damned. 
• Ahmedinejad claiming support for the uprising in Egypt and promptly quashing any popular demonstration in support of the uprising
• Hillary Clinton forcefully denouncing the "awful" Iranian regime's suppression of dissent and yet becoming mealy mouthed when it came to worse abuses by Bahrain and Yemen.  I wish she would just shut up.
• Bashar Assad claiming that the uprising will not spread to Syria because his people love his steadfast foreign policy; yet he promptly restores food subsidies and unlocks Facebook and Youtube. 
• Switzerland freezing the assets of the Mubarak clan.  Really?  I guess the Swiss bankers learned that it was tainted money after reading the signs carried by the protesters in the streets of Cairo.
• Muammar Gaddafi -every one's SOB- blaming everyone but himself for the anger on streets of Benghazi.