re: Obama response to Ukraine vs other countries...

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Iranian Green Revolution- pro westerners (or at least more moderate), hung out to dry by Obama

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None of our business

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Ukrainian Protestors- pro westerners, hung out to dry by Obama

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None of our business

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Syria conflict- Obama threatens military action to defend Al Qaeda elements in Syrian civil war

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The bottom line is that he did nothing which is good. It's none of our business.

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Egypt conflict- Obama urges Mubarak be overthrown as Muslims protest

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Obama never egged on the protesters, he just stood by and let the Egyptians settle it on their own which is also good. It's none of our business.

Your nonsense reminds me of a great column that George Will wrote about conservative interventionists during the Egyptian revolution:

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In 1949, when communists came to power there, America bestrode both hemispheres shattered from war. Americans thought that their nation was at the wheel of the world and that whatever happened, wherever, happened at America's instigation, or at least its sufferance, or was evidence of American negligence.

It is a sign of national maturity - the product of hard learning, from Korea and Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan - that fewer American complainers are today faulting the Obama administration for not anticipating and shaping events in Egypt. Israel, which lives next door to Egypt and has an excellent intelligence service, did not see this coming. So, a modest proposal:

Those Americans who know which Republican will win next year's Iowa caucuses can complain about those who did not know that when a Tunisian street vendor set himself on fire, he would set a region afire. From all other Americans, forbearance would be seemly.

It also would be amazing, because there is a cottage industry of Barack Obama critics who, not content with monitoring his myriad mistakes in domestic policies, insist that there must be a seamless connection of those with his foreign policy. Strangely, these critics, who correctly doubt the propriety and capacity of the U.S. government controlling our complex society, simultaneously fault the government for not having vast competence to shape the destinies of other societies. Such critics persist because, as Upton Sinclair wrote in 1935, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

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