President of Turd Way's Think Tank accuses Obama of 'demoting liberty,' wants MORE useless war

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3. "But such is the lot of a superpower."

I love the whiney tone. The White Man's Burden they used to call it.

And then:

"Obama is right that the United States ought to be humble about our ability to shape events in the Middle East."

All that is the bait before the hook:

But we should always throw America’s weight behind popular hopes for greater economic and political freedom. And for democracy too, because as a means of sharing power, enabling compromises and trade-offs, and managing social pluralism, it’s the only plausible alternative to the region’s zero-sum politics of guns, rockets and car-bombs.

Like much of that was not our doing.