Obama's Mideast Strategy - if he even has one - is in ruins. How is he going to react now?

It was a total shock that President Obama literally threw America’s long-time ally – Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak under the bus when a hundred thousand disenchanted Egyptians protested his autocratic regime. Mubarak was clearly willing to hand over the government, but in an orderly fashion that protected the integrity of Egypt’s national institutions. President Obama forced early elections in Egypt, when no other group was organized other than the Muslim Brotherhood – who promised that they would not run for political office. Of course, they DID run and won a bogus election without any real competition. The MB won, they immediate focused on imposing their extremist religious values on the other 75% of the country – at the expense of letting the infrastructure of Egypt disintegrate and generally create a non-functioning state.

It is no wonder that millions of Secular Egyptians, Christians, and moderate Muslims are protesting the MB regime. The protester leaders have been jailed, any critic in the press is jailed, all organs of the government are led by extremist MB in posts where they are ill equipped to govern. Egypt’s infrastructure is destroyed, and the country is on the verge of civil/sectarian war and is likely to become a failed state like Somalia without global intervention.

Our President gave the Muslim Brotherhood credibility with his undeserved support. Most Mid-East scholars knew where this was heading, yet President Obama only surrounds himself with people who agree with him and rarely convenes advisory boards to supplement his decision making process.

President Obama is not responsible for the chaos in the Mideast, but he has certainly contributed to reversing 70 years of U.S policy and even to this day he is still committed to reducing U.S. influence to the point where our allies no longer have faith in America. Many people want to frame America’s place in the world, as a “has-been” as far as global leadership is concerned. The fact is that while we had suffered an economic setback in 2008 – and are in recovery now – when compared to the rest of the world, we are in the most advantageous position of any 1^st world economy. President Obama has many problems to deal with today with the NSA, Obamacare and the Mideast. To date he has only shown an ability to be reactive and place blame elsewhere. It would be nice to see some pro-active governance that helps shape the world, rather than letting the world shape America.