WHAA..? – AT 11:08 P.M. ET:  The secretary of state of the United States explains American foreign policy.  Urgent Agenda is thinking of offering a financial reward for any reader who can explain the explanation.  From Bloomberg:

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the U.S. won’t enter into the internal conflict in Syria the way it has in Libya.

“No,” Clinton said, when asked on the CBS “Face the Nation” program if the U.S. would intervene in Syria’s unrest. Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s security forces clashed with protesters in several cities yesterday after his promises of freedoms and pay increases failed to prevent dissent from spreading across the country.

Clinton said the elements that led to intervention in Libya -- international condemnation, an Arab League call for action, a United Nations Security Council resolution -- are “not going to happen” with Syria, in part because members of the U.S. Congress from both parties say they believe Assad is “a reformer.”

They do?  I'd like to know who these members of Congress are.  Name the names.  Assad runs a complete police state.

“What’s been happening there the last few weeks is deeply concerning, but there’s a difference between calling out aircraft and indiscriminately strafing and bombing your own cities,” Clinton said, referring to Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi’s attacks on the Libyan people, “than police actions which, frankly, have exceeded the use of force that any of us would want to see.”

COMMENT:  So Assad is the slightly misguided good guy here?  Does anyone understand what our policy is?  You just get the feeling that it's amateur night in Washington, with the president hoping that the mainstream media will cover for him once again.

The Mideast is burning.  We really have no policy.

March 27, 2011