Churchillian

Templates for responding to excesses of an ally

Here’s a little help if ambition ever drives you to one day hope to be a spokesman for the US government. Alternately, if decoding why very similar events can be officially responded to in completely dissimilar ways gets you as excited as it gets me - read on.

Secretary of state Hillary Clinton - after the watershed popular uprising in Egypt against Hosni Mubarak’s 30 year, authoritarian rule, where police have gunned down protesters from Cairo to Alexandra - urged "restraint on both sides".