http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Analysis/Outside-View/2012/02/15/Outside-View-BHO-equals-W-on-steroids/UPI-83181329305340/
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- Ironic humor, fortunately, is never far from politics. Few may recall the so-called "freedom agenda" advanced by President George W. Bush a decade ago.
Spreading democracy by muscular means would "transform" the Middle East as autocratic regimes crumbled. And it did but not the way Bush intended. Afghanistan and Iraq were the test cases and the Taliban and Saddam Hussein victims.
President Barack H. Obama has embraced Bush's preference for regime change without an accompanying freedom agenda. He has done so vigorously and deliciously.
First Tunisia dumped its long-standing leader. Egypt and Yemen followed suit. And, without the loss of a single military life on our side, Libya lost its dear Colonel Gadhafi. Now Syria and Iran are in Obama's gun sights.
Bush took down two odious regimes. Obama has already doubled that score during his first term AND brought Osama bin Laden to justice. BHO has indeed become W on steroids.
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Mad Poet Strikes Again.
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