EGYPTEN: Utrikesminister Carl Bildt (M) har fått hård kritik för att han inte tydligt och klart krävde Egyptens president Hosni Mubaraks avgång.
”Vi låg före USA. Att Mubarak skulle avgå var bara en tidsfråga. Vi ställde krav på fria val och en rättsstat, och det är fortfarande inte uppfyllt”, var Bildts försvar.
Men Bildts försvar imponerar inte med tanke på den förvirring som har präglat president Barack Obamas hantering av krisen i Mellanöstern.
Omslaget till vänster säger allt om hur man nu i USA ser på adminstrationens agerande.
”The result has been a foreign-policy debacle”, skriver historikern Niall Ferguson.
This failure was not the result of bad luck. It was the predictable consequence of the Obama administration’s lack of any kind of coherent grand strategy, a deficit about which more than a few veterans of U.S. foreign policy making have long worried.
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These were [Barack Obamas] words back in June 2009:
America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles—principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
Those lines will come back to haunt Obama if, as cannot be ruled out, the ultimate beneficiary of his bungling in Egypt is the Muslim Brotherhood, which remains by far the best organized opposition force in the country—and wholly committed to the restoration of the caliphate and the strict application of Sharia. Would such an outcome advance “tolerance and the dignity of all human beings” in Egypt? Somehow, I don’t think so.
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