What part of Egypt do you not understand? Libya anyone?
The role of the US Government is to defend our INTEREST and promote our values.
Kosovo anyone?
We could even discuss Afghanistan in this context.
Bush had that "war" won in the first 90 days. Taliban disposed. Major training camps destroyed.
Yet we're there over a dozen years later "promoting democracy".
How would "our values" dictate our response to the Syrian civil war?
Should we have troops and material in the Central African Republic? Wouldn't that be a good place to defend our values?
Here’s a hint:
The U.S. is capable of exercising it’s foreign policy initiatives with having troops on the ground.
First, the administration has to have a coherrant foreign policy.
That typically doesn’t include using the Muslim Brotherhood as an ally.
American “interests” are NOT best protected by sticking our head in the sand, waiting for problems to land on our shores.