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"We have paid a price.... Our policy with regard to Mubarak as interpreted by some of our closest Arab allies in the Gulf has not gone over well."

Former Obama national security adviser James Jones on the White House’s decision to call for Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak’s ouster. “In their interpretation of our dumping President Mubarak very hastily, [it] answered the question of what we would be likely to do if that happened in their countries,” Jones said.

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