The article For the US in Egypt, Blowback Is a Bitch by Michael Winship is just another nail in the coffin of the Change (In Foreign Policy) That We Can Believe In.

For good measure, you can read The Arab World Is on Fire, a very mild piece by Noam Chomsky standards.

I’d like to think that the missteps in foreign policy are coming from Hillary Clinton.  Her pronouncements make my skin crawl worse than anything that President Obama says.  However, he appointed her, he keeps her in office, and he seems to follow her advice.  As Michael Dukakis once so elegantly put it, the fish rots from the head.