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Then, there would be the impact on US foreign policy. NBC's Mitchell must have had a brain cramp when she described Hosni Mubarak as "America's closest ally in the Middle East." What region of the world does she think Israel is in? ABC's Raddatz gave us a nauseating example of the fruits of that alliance, torture by proxy: "Egypt has been a key partner in cracking down hard on al-Qaeda and other radical Islamist groups, capturing and sometimes brutally interrogating them by the thousands but then passing on the intelligence to the United States."
"A pattern is beginning to emerge," reckoned NBC's Engel. "The regimes under fire are pro-Western police states widely accused of corruption." Later, his colleague Martin Fletcher marched us across the southern Mediterranean from Algeria through Tunisia to Libya, then Egypt and Jordan before ending up in Yemen: "Will Islamic fundamentalists, well-organized almost everywhere, fill the power vacuum?" he asked, rhetorically. "Is that good or bad? Who knows?" At the sound of Yemen, ABC's Raddatz just about lost it. "Talk about alarm bells!" she expostulated. Check out her Doomsday Scenario here, which makes an ex-patriate Internet imam more dangerous than Osama bin Laden himself.
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