美国的政策也因此令人难堪地摇摆不定，从国务卿希拉里·克林顿的“切勿操之过急，否则民主运动可能被人利用”到巴拉克·奥巴马总统的有力呼吁“立即改革 ” 。
This is why US policy oscillated so disconcertingly from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s “Do not rush the pace or else the pro-democracy movement could well be hijacked” to President Barack Obama’s emphatic call for “change now.”