counter-coup injury

"the people will be served" Obama said
when Egypt dragged Mubarak from his throne
but Saudis balked, and hopes were trampled, dead
as they installed a puppet of their own
the ArabSpring aspired to so much more
and Morsi tried to do the People's work
but he was booted out by Riyadh's whore
el-Sisi's quite the autocratic jerk
convenient strongmen run the trains on time
while bread and circus keeps the mobs amused
would it be petty to nickel and dime
our allies for each journalist abused?
Obama's legacy's just mortal-sized
too slim to justify that Nobel Prize