yeah...you are both right.
I would reframe it more as many of our foreign policy decisions in propping up right wing governments over the last half century have had the consequence of creating or contributing to insurgencies that come back to bite us on the ass.
And, according to a recent
BBC poll I posted elswhere, citizens in many nations - Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Lebanon, Mexico, Nigeria, Panama, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Turkey, the UAE, Britain - believe that Obama would have a foreign policy that would likely improve relations between the US and the rest of the world.