“The Qatari assistance to fighters viewed as hostile by the United States demonstrates the Obama administration’s continuing struggles in dealing with the Arab Spring uprisings, as it tries to support popular protest movements while avoiding American military entanglements. Relying on surrogates allows the United States to keep its fingerprints off operations, but also means they may play out in ways that conflict with American interests.
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As if it makes it okay to “destabilize” foreign governments and overthrow popular leaders who pose no real threat to us…just as long as we don’t have our “offical” military forces doing the dirty work.
