[Skybird]

From the chain of unrests, there is something more general to be learned, about Obama. I knew already that he had no interest in Europe, but recent events in the Arab world show that he indeed lacks any vision and comprehensive conception of foreign politics in general. This lack of concept explains why he is so absurdly zig-zagging back and forth between demanding democracy and being unable to come up with conceptual answers to the changes in the power and faction balance this change brings, and why he fails in trying the split between democracy and tyrannic monarchies in the Arab world.

As a German news outlet marked today, things will become really interesting when the unrest spreads to Bahrain - home and headquarter of the 5th fleet patrolling the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. Iran would love to see this American foothold disappear.

I slowly but surely must conclude that while Obama's foreign policy is different to that of GWB, it nevertheless shows the same level of incompetence, lacking understanding and stupidity. It already became suspicious when he started to appease the Islamic world, hailed the indeed totalitarianism of Islam as freedom and humanism, and next when he had that speech in Cairo. I immediately wondered if he really had thought it to the bitter end what he said there.

The American Middle East policy falls apart currently, and the long-sought balancing in its structure to win strategic stablity, is in pieces. Well-intended words cannot compensate for lacking sense of realism and Realpolitik. Some of the biggest disasters in man's history were caused by good intentions. It is here when Obama's undeniable brilliant rethoric talent turns out for the worst results.

Bush's problem was lobbyistic connections that pulled the strings he hang on, and lacking intellect. He simply is a stupid man. Obama's problem is not a lack of intelligence and intellect, but a too narrow horizon.