mubarak this nation nation of egypt is america s friend in the middle east. the fact that moubarak, fox has confirmed, is stepping down, where does it leave the united states? listen, you know, it leaves the united states with a very different middle east, because even if, you know, liberal liberals come to power in egypt, i don t think this is going to look necessarily like iraq but it might look a little bit like turkey, insofar as while they will still be our friends, while we will still have military to military relationship with them, they will be a less reliable partner for washington in the middle east. so that, itself, presents some difficulty for us. but alternate the end of the day democracy is a good thing. jon: a less reliable partner for the united states, that is the thinking of david schenker from the washington institute of