Obama's main aim isn't to shape the future it's to keep foreign policy on the back burner so his domestic agenda stays front and center.

With hindsight, perhaps Cameron’s decision to intervene militarily in Libya to prevent a humanitarian disaster and remove Muammar Gaddafi’s regime should not have been a surprise to anyone.

Submission is a central theme in the Muslim religion, so certain things need to change drastically if Egypt does not want their new regime to morph into a dictator as well.

A new policy in Zimbabwe effectively means that all of Zimbabwe's foreign-owned industries are to be nationalized, which may well be the final straw for what's left of Zimbabwe's economy.

The United Nations has recently ratcheted up its criticism of the United States' decision to withhold humanitarian aid to parts of Somalia controlled by the Islamist terror group al Shabaab.

The Libyan oil curse is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of innocent European and American victims of Libyan-sponsored terrorism and for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Africans in civil wars.

What can the world do to help Zimbabwe?

It is essential that the US provide more humanitarian relief, push the United Nations to help, and support civil society. Violent conflict will be the result unless more external aid is provided.