From the article: The Egyptian Revolution in the Context of U.S. Policy in the Middle East
On the streets of Cairo, the demonstrators are attacking Hosni Mubarak as an American stooge. In Iraq, Iraqis can't wait for U.S. troops to leave, and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks as derisively of the U.S. "occupation" as does Afghanistan's http://middleeast.about.com/od/afghanistan/p/hamid-karzai-profile.htm, however corrupt both of them are. In the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, President Obama has been as ineffective as President Bush. And in Lebanon, Hezbollah's take-over is another huge U.S. loss of influence--and of face--to
Syria's and Iran's advantage. Is U.S. credibility shot for good?
The tarnished image of USA in the Middle
- No doubt America's credibility have taken a battering in recent years. It failed to come out enequivocally on the side of the people of Egypt, Bahrain and now Syria. Its unqualified free for all support for Israel has eroded Prersident Obama's reputation. It is not good enough to declare support for the so-called Arab Spring, if you deliberately exclude the Palestinian people living under occupation.
- —Guest nehad ismail