How do you react to a terror attack?

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No. Obama thought he could just go in and play Arab Spring and that isn't how it worked out. At all. He had no problem whatsoever destabilizing the region. Hillary and Obama thought they could go in and fund the rebels and overthrow Assad. It was some of the most power resource grabbing crap.

Yes, Obama tried to do something and it has not worked out like that. In Libya he was just plain wrong for doing what he did, and was just having a continuation of previous policy, when he had seemed to want to go in a different direction.

But he didn't destablize the region. He didn't particularly help either, the region was already unstable.

Syria was just the sort of policy where the US knows what it wants, but doesn't want to risk anything to get it because they know it's not worth it. So they start things and then don't finish them, and this causes more problems.

Obama absolutely destabilized the region.

The region was already destabilized, unless of course you think Iraq didn't happen.

U.S.-Financed Groups Had Supporting Role in Arab Uprisings

Yes, the point isn't that the Obama administration didn't help push the Arab Spring. My point was that the region was already in turmoil for the Arab Spring to even be able to take off.

 

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Documents obtained by the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley show the US channeled funding through a State Department programme to promote democracy in the Middle East region. This programme vigorously supported activists and politicians who have fomented unrest in Egypt, after autocratic president Hosni Mubarak was ousted in a popular uprising in February 2011.

The State Department's programme, dubbed by US officials as a "democracy assistance" initiative, is part of a wider Obama administration effort to try to stop the retreat of pro-Washington secularists, and to win back influence in Arab Spring countries that saw the rise of Islamists, who largely oppose US interests in the Middle East.


Activists bankrolled by the programme include an exiled Egyptian police officer who plotted the violent overthrow of the Morsi government, an anti-Islamist politician who advocated closing mosques and dragging preachers out by force, as well as a coterie of opposition politicians who pushed for the ouster of the country's first democratically elected leader, government documents show.
Exclusive: US bankrolled anti-Morsi activists

And that isn't even touching the attempts to overthrow governments in South America.

Like Venezuela 2002?

And here:
US support for regime change in Venezuela is a mistake | Mark Weisbrot