So, on the one hand you’ve got people complaining that the US shouldn’t be the world’s policemen (the Randian isolationists), and then you’ve got others who think that the President should be burning up the phone lines and satellites pushing the US interests in a fluid developing situation that has no good outcomes?

Lovely options to have.

The President doesn’t have many options here besides putting out press statements. The regime in place is trying to keep the old regime that it considered illegitimate based on the actions taken from returning to power while the old regime considers the current one illegitimate because it was ousted in what can be considered a coup.