[pepsionice]

Well....he did figure out the delay tactics by the Paris US-negotiation team to end the Vietnam War, and even tried to point this out.

I don’t think there is anybody bright enough to figure out this Syria or Egyptian mess.

[Netz]

You don't have to figure these messes out. You have to see what the end game is and how to align it with YOUR NATIONAL INTERESTS. Egypt may be doing a nasty job of it but in that part of the world it's “us or them”. The Egyptian generals know that they must CRUSH the MB or the MB will crush them as they did with Sadat. It has to be lopsided and bloody so that the MB will go back underground again, for another 80 years.
Look what the MB did in Turkey. They pulverized the Army and now they have total control. Obama does not understand that the Egyptian Army must be decisive, with an iron fist if they have half a chance of stabilizing Egypt.