you’re right, Farida

2059: Another reader in Cairo, Farida, is also anxious about the signals being sent out by the US: “Like all of us here, I stay up to date with the news, and I’m trying my best to believe that the US has good intentions for Egypt, but these mixed messages are just not worthy of any trust. We are all conflicted because it is an unstable situation, but changing policies and requests from the world’s superpower is just causing more unrest.”

It’s true that we don’t know what’s being said behind the scenes. But the things being said in public from the top often sound parochial and out of touch.