Good insightful report on some of the more repressive regimes in the Middle East. As Chris Floyd incisively notes here, there are atrocities going on in Bahrain which the United States and Hillary Clinton pretend are not happening.

http://www.chris-floyd.com/

This woman's hypocrisy has no bounds, as a citizen I am thoroughly disgusted. She is a representative of 'our' government and openly supports dictators. It is not a recent occurrence, Rice met with the dictator of oil rich Equatorial Guinea. We speak of democracy but suppress it whenever possible all over the world.
Two days ago Clinton blathered on about the Syrian government killing a child. While no doubt a horrible event, the USA murders civilians, women and children on a daily basis.

"Working together on reform" means "more weaponry for more effective repression."

Just to correct the information at the end of this comment:

Most academic analysts give the native Bahraini population a Shia majority of approximately 70 percent. (Wikipedia)

The ruling family though are Sunni as are the Saudi army that have been brought in to crack heads. But no this is not essentially a sectarian fight, although the ruling family and the US have tried to suggest that the evil hands of Iran are behind the uprising..... more bullshit on top of the hypocrisy.

And it appears that the State Department knows it is being hypocritical:
Bloomberg reports:

The United States put Bahrain, a Persian Gulf ally, in the company of Iran, North Korea, Syria and Zimbabwe on its list of human rights violators presented to the UN Human Rights Council.

Bahrain, home to the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet, has tried to crush protests that have wracked the country since February, as the Shiite majority population has agitated for the Sunni Muslim monarchy to allow greater economic opportunities and freedoms.

“The Bahraini government has arbitrarily detained workers and others perceived as opponents,” said Eileen Donohoe, the U.S. ambassador to the council, in a statement to the council today. “The United States is deeply concerned about violent repression of the fundamental freedoms of association, expression, religion and speech of their citizens.”

Hillary Clinton (while in Brazil), when asked by a reporter about civilians killed by US forces in Afghanistan, “So we’re going to continue to do everything we can to express our deep regret when a terrible incident occurs and civilians are injured or killed. And I would only underscore that that stands in stark contrast to the indiscriminate killing, the suicide bombing, the IED – the improvised explosive devices, that are used by the insurgents without regard for any human life."