In addition to the divided, contradictory nature of the Obama Doctrine, there is the unclear military response to two pressing conflicts emerging in the Middle East.
Libya is already devolving into civil war. The Obama Administration claims no aim to effect regime change, but merely to assist in assisting the European members of NATO and the Arab League in assisting the rebels in ousting dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
Then there's Syria. President Bashas al-Assad has already fired on his own people, with the slaughter numbering into the hundreds. The United States has a greater strategic interest in a moderate regime rising up from the toppling unrest in autocratic Syria, as does Israel.
Yet the President has not sent military support to aid the Syrian people. He has not even withdrawn the US Ambassador from Damascus, as President George W. Bush had done in 2005.
If President Obama wants to pursue a foreign policy of liberal internationalism, protecting innocent civilians from cruel dictators, then how does he account for not sending troops into Syria, or Yemen and La Cote D'Ivoire?
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