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At The National Review, Victor Davis Hanson criticizes President Obama’s Middle Eastern policy. Hanson faults Obama for supporting dictators, such as Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, until these leaders become unpopular in their home countries. “The Obama administration was confused about the Egyptian revolution–mum on the old allied authoritarian Hosni Mubarak until it was clear that he would lose power, then rushing in to embrace the dissidents, then declaring the Muslim Brotherhood to be ‘secular,’” writes Hanson.