Obama has been supportive with the revolutions and ousting of dictators from Northern Africa. The consequence that will occur next will be a new form of government. It finally became a concern to the Obama Administration that a Islamic state my surface as a form of government with a radical Islamic element. As Obama is downplaying a Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaeda, or Taliban form of government, the president is using Turkey, Lebanon, and Palestine as example that stable government that might work in torn countries like Egypt, Libya, and Yemen. Realistically speaking, Obama has created an atmosphere of instability in the Middle East. By spreading any form of radical Islam in these regions will grow terrorism and hatred to non-Muslim religions. Let's not be blind to the fact that the recent bombing of churches and beheading of Christians are not coincidences. I have said it many times we are in a Holy War. The battle for land, oil, and freedom are secondary to their prime goal;to spread Islam throughout the world. America had successes in dealing and controlling with dictators (Mubarak, Gaddafi, Marcos, Chavez), but it is impossible to reason and work with radical Islamic ideologues that has a set agenda (Ayatollah Khomeini, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad). Obama owns what occurs in the Middle East. With the sky-rocket oil and gas prices, massive genocides, and many displayed hungry people, it will take the next president to clean up the mess that Obama created.
(Washington Post) The Obama administration is preparing for the prospect that Islamist governments will take hold in North Africa and the Middle East, acknowledging that the popular revolutions there will bring a more religious cast to the region's politics.
The administration is already taking steps to distinguish between various movements in the region that promote Islamic law in government. An internal assessment, ordered by the White House last month, identified large ideological differences between such movements as the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and al-Qaeda that will guide the U.S. approach to the region.
None of the revolutions over the past several weeks has been overtly Islamist, but there are signs that the uprisings could give way to more religious forces. An influential Yemeni cleric called this week for the U.S.-backed administration of President Ali Abdullah Saleh to be replaced with Islamist rule, and in Egypt, an Islamist theoretician has a leading role in drafting constitutional changes after President Hosni Mubarak's fall from power last month.
A number of other Islamist parties are deciding now how big a role to play in protests or post-revolution reforms.
