“Bumbling Obama”. Hardly. His interests just do not lie in the direction of Egypt, Houston, other than as a side issue of how it will impact on Israel. His raison d’etre.

As for “Coherent Grand Strategy” appealing to such as Niall Ferguson, anything other than Obama’s ability to peacefully sit out the remainder of his tenure as a lame duck US President before he heads off to Hawaii in 18 months, is an annoying distraction. For him it is just going through the motions. The veto in the UN last month for his masters was his final coupe de grace

For any reader of Tom Clancy, with his predilection for major international military actions, nuclear attacks, imminent catastrophic danger, etc., now would be the time to attack the US, totally preoccupied as they are with internal political machinations, the neutering of the Unions for one, serious stuff kicked along by the ‘Tea Party’, the fight to find the most likely Republican candidate to takeover the White House and wreak havoc on the world, and shoring up the Zionist control of the AIPAC Congress and Senate. Everything else is irrelevant and fortunately for the neocons, the apathetic US people aren’t even sure who is in power and really couldn’t care less, anyway.

One should not read into that statement that the evil CIA is not keeping “the rhetorical stooge” informed, as would also be the Mossad assassinators reporting on the hour to Netanyahu. It is still business as usual and both would be thick on the ground in Egypt as they would be in Libya right now, Pakistan which we are all aware about with the recent killing in the streets by US ‘blacktops’ person of Pakistanis. No fuss...that’s what they are paid to do.

So the US Grand Plan is there but not active in the mind of the Israeli stooge, Obama, every bit as bad as Bush, if that is possible.

But for the likes of Ferguson, his admiration for Kissinger says it all, really. Anyone that can admire such a devious and evil man, is hardly worth quoting.

I agree with Houston Ash, I wouldn't value the opinion of anyone who regards Henry Kissinger as foreign policy role model.
As to 'grand strategies', does the US still have the resources to implement such plans, Ferguson has spoken at length about the coming rapid decline of American Imperial power and yet he urges grand strategies.
The Americans have never really been much in favour of democracies in the ME as the outcomes of free elections would probably produce governments hostile to their, and Israel's interests.

So Obama's 'masterful inaction' might indeed be the soundest policy.

The grand strategies implemented under the Bush Administration resulted in a serious overreach of U.S. capacity.
The U.S. is now in the first stages of decline in its role as a universal superpower "policeman" which is code for "looking out for its own interests".
The Obama administration wold be painfully aware that the U.S. has let the game get away and it is no longer in the position to "forcefully" intervene in any long lasting capacity to influence the rapidly unfolding events in the Middle East.
Iraq and Afghanistan have, since their inception, been huge black holes into which the taxes of Americans have been funnelled into private hands.
The time has come for America to focus on its failed manufacturing base and get its own house in order.

The dangers in Egypt, regardless of the lack of interest by Obama having lost a criminal supporter of US graft and torture, are what the US is so practiced at doing. The destabilisation of a country through the government employed CIA, such as their own vital interests in Egypt being the closure of the rendition torture activities, a vital, unhumane industry.
One of our own citizens, Mamdouh Habib was a victim, yes, all with the connivance of our own government, for which he has now been financially compensated, confirming that we are complicit in such evils.

This newly developed sense of common benefit between the different segments of Egyptian life must not be allowed to be eroded, a climate just as important as the departure of a yet another US-supported dictator. In the future, no one, even one with US financial backing, should be able to stand against such fervent public opinion. But the US will try, be assured.

Even with those who allowed these decades of graft and corruption under Mubarak to start and grow but who were not able to suppress the revolution in Egypt, now plan to destabilise it, aiming to generate further division and mistrust among the people. The joint machiavellian intelligence agencies of the US and Israel will try to divide and rule the people again through the ranks of the military, ostensibly only in power for a short term.

The military. Who better to be compromised by the almighty US dollar. Just look at Afghanistan, the drug crops all intact, all getting to the users of the world, no shortage of heroine, no acreage destroyed. As the deceased criminal US President Nixon said, 'the War on Drugs has commenced', but that was a long time ago. Now, the 2011 CIA and their product heroin still rule day in Afghanistan as U.S. Army planes leave Afghanistan carrying coffins, free of bodies, but filled with drugs.”

And this is what our soldiers are dying for?

This is the USA in 2011. The US and Israel need a compliant and controlled Egypt.

Egyptians, watch your back.