What kind of policy should Obama have regarding Egypt? Im curious what people think he should do or should have done.
Obama helped usher in democracy in Egypt through his famous speech to the muslim masses in 2009 where he called out Muslim leaders and Arab dictators for ignoring the will of the people and basically told them to get their act together ..he basically called a spade a spade..the first time a U.S. prez had done so.......he set the climate for change and gave the people a green light because they knew the POTUS was behind their cause.....when the people started to rebel in the different Arab countries, Obama encouraged peaceful transition to democracy but Mubarak wanted to transfer power to his son and never made any serious reforms....he caused his own downfall by holding on to power for 30 years as did Ghaddafi for 40 years...there was no going back....Mubarak had to go...Obama did the right thing...why prop up a dictator that the people clearly don't want?....Not to mention, this has always been U.S. policy..stay with the dictator until the people clearly don't want him,,,,,look what happened to Ferdinand Marcos of the phillipines, and a few others I could mention....
Bush brought democracy to Iraq....what they choose to do with it is on them..same as Egypt..its a fallacy that the POTUS can dictate the kind of gov't other countries have....Obama has done a good job simply by following the example previous presidents have set..stay with the dictator as long as you can and then let the people remove him when they get tired ,and help push him out so as to avoid bloodshed...which of course we would be blamed for
