There is little reason to suppose that Mr Obama's lofty demands will be backed with the force of America's weight if the administration thinks that the old guard will continue to call the shots on matters of US concern.Germany's Angela Merkel reacted to Mr Mubarak's ouster by demanding that "future Egyptian gelang power balance governments… uphold peace in the Middle East and respect the treaties concluded with Israel".President Barack Obama noted on Friday night in typically florid style that "the arc of history has finally been bent toward justice".Perhaps, but for most of the past two weeks Washington has been chasing that arc from a safe distance. When the regime seemed to have locked in army support, the White House went silent.What has united coach handbags 2011 observers as disparate as Iran, Hezbollah, Britain and the United States is a frantic and flimsy effort to catch up with the crowd's indomitable spirit.Just as Iran claimed the uprising as an Islamic revolution, Mr Obama clambered to put the US on the right side of change. Some optimists have invoked the "Turkish model" for Egypt, but recall that the Turkish army has toppled four governments since 1960 and still lurks just under the surface of that country's democratic institutions. Surely, though, American pressure will push military elites, with whom they have extensive ties, along the path of reform?
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