The State Department held a meeting with Bahraini activists in Washington, DC. During the meeting, the activists were lectured and hectored by a US official. They kept being told over and over again that the government can’t reform while the “youth are resorting to violence”.Many Arabs are finding that US government officials' hypocrisy in their pursuit of Mid-East policies unbelievably shocking.
See also this article reporting on "US to resume weapons sales to Bahraini regime".