Obama’s Washington is the Rodney Dangerfield of the Middle East
Reprinted with permission from Tomdispatch.com By Bob Dreyfuss Put in context, the simultaneous raids in Libya and Somalia last month, targeting an alleged al-Qaeda fugitive and an alleged kingpin of the al-Shabab Islamist movement, were less a sign of America’s awesome might than two minor exceptions that proved an emerging rule: namely, that the power, prestige,…