White House: Basic citizen demands unmet by Egypt
The White House warned Egypt's leaders to expect unrelenting protests unless they start to show real reforms and a transition to a freer society, dismissing governmental concessions so far as not having met even the minimum threshold of what people want.
Obama administration officials were also increasingly blunt in describing the limits of their leverage, reasserting that the United States is not seeking to dictate events in Egypt and that it cannot. "We're not going to be able to force them do anything," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters Wednesday. (AP)
