President Obama intervened in 2011 to destabilize the leaders of two confirmed United States allies, Libya in North Africa and Egypt in the Middle East. He achieved his objectives with the brutal assassination of Colonel Gaddafi and the caged trial of Hosni Mubarak. Events have followed precisely predictable paths since the initiation of hostilities against these two pro-Western leaders.
Gaddafi’s Libya could not possibly expect to survive the combined assault of NATO forces, even given the ragtag, undisciplined rebels that rose up against his regime. Mubarak could not outbid the United States in its successful effort to deploy taxpayers’ monies in bribing a corrupt Egyptian military to shift allegeiance in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood and its anti-Western collaborators. So spring promise inevitably turned into glorious summer for those who seek chaos in the Middle East.
Glorious summer, however, turned out to be brief indeed. Predictably, the fall has brought reality, in the…
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