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Evan is exactly right here. Any Democratic candidate (and the policy people who work for them) should—and, I hope, will—prioritize Egypt as a kind of litmus test for the values that all of us should stand for unapologetically
What one progressive president, Barack Obama, both did and didn't do (although *not* doing something is a concerted policy choice in its own right) is a major blight—among many blights—in recent US foreign policy, as @evanchill expertly lays out here: slate.com/news-and-polit…
The Obama foreign policy record is tragic in the human cost it either indirectly or directly contributed to. It can never be undone, and it should never be excused. But what it can do, too late after the fact, is inform today's progressives on what should never be done again
To put it more simply, Barack Obama may have been a progressive, but he was not a progressive on foreign policy, if the word "progressive" is to suggest any real meaningful content
