Quote Originally Posted by El Kabong View Post
Here's the real issue with Obama's foreign policy: He wants to help out the people that are against the dictator just like in Libya and Egypt, the problem is he won't take the time to figure out who he's helping.
This isn't true. The first guy to go down was Ben Ali in Tunisia and the Obama administration officially didn't take sides between the unarmed demonstrators and the Tunisian army until Ben Ali's plane left Tunisian airspace on the way to Saudi. Same in Egypt. The first thing the US did was to fly in planeloads of riot control equipment. That stopped when the Egyptians started putting pictures of US-made teargas canisters on Facebook. Libya was an opportunity to get US access to Libyan oilfields and Syria is something America/Israel are desperate to see happen as it helps isolate Iran. But none of this is really what Obama wants. Obama or any other US president would be delighted with a return to the pre-Tunisia status quo. Unfortunately that isn't going to happen so the challenge is how best to manage it.