As much as Mubarak is a slave to US foreign policy, Obama is boxed in by geopolitical imperatives and enormous corporate interests he cannot even dream of upsetting.
While the world is riveted by the on-going crisis around Iran's nuclear program, the most immediate danger of a war may be on Israel's border with Lebanon
Ramping up the rhetoric of war in a volatile region can lead to a misstep and once the dogs of war are off their leash, it will be hard to bring them to heel.
