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Didnt say we should have stepped in or attempted to control their fate (though we did that in Libya...and then oddly NOT in Syria...curious that). Do you know what Obamas position is on Egypt? Now? then? for a while it was trumpeted as a great success...these uprisings and democracy. Now...silence...huh...why is that? Perhaps because people are getting killed there now, people are still dying by the hundreds in those other countries, etc. And again...where is the LEADERSHIP?
Well, I never said Obama was a brilliant leader, but regardless my point remains that what happened in Egypt doesn't really reflect on his own performance. Outside of some sort of military action, the only "leadership" the President could actually show was to perhaps make endless speeches - something his opponents have consistently criticized him for anyway.
what you are proposing is that its OK to just not have a foreign policy...which is fine...that makes you a Ron Paul supporter. The difference between Ron Paul and Obama is that Paul makes no bones about not engaging the world in foreign policy.
I'm not actually proposing that, i'm not actually proposing anything, really. I'm only saying that Egypt had little to nothing to do with the President's "foreign policy performance."