Is the president being evil or has he just gone mental?

President Obama and his administration's contempt for our traditional allies, coupled with his comfort with our traditional adversaries can no longer be attributed to inexperience, or even incompetence. It must be due to ideology. Bill Whittle chalks out the disgraceful history as it stands SO FAR. As Saudi troops swept into Bahrain on Monday, President Obama kept playing his favorite new role: the Invisible Man. Bahrain is a key US ally and headquarters to the Navy's Fifth Fleet, which patrols the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean from the Horn of Africa to Bangladesh. But its Sunni monarchy sits atop a restive Shia majority. So the Saudis sent in about 2,000 troops to assert order, lest Iran make the island another cat's paw. The United States could have headed off the protests, pressuring Bahrain to create a legitimate parliament and grant Shias political power. Instead, Obama ducked -- and created a vacuum that the Saudis felt compelled to fill. Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/prez_gone_awol_aZYSacm8LYVEl3UhX3rgIN#ixzz1Gn8aBOeN