Posted on 03/28/2011 8:46:32 PM PDT by Nachum
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Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama on Monday rejected criticism of his decision to commit U.S. forces to the U.N.-authorized military mission in Libya, telling the American people there were strategic and moral reasons to act.
In a nationally televised speech at the National Defense University, Obama said his administration kept its pledge that the mission would be limited in size and scope, announcing that the NATO alliance would assume full command on Wednesday.
The United States now will play "a supporting role -- including intelligence, logistical support, search-and-rescue assistance, and capabilities to jam regime communications," Obama said, noting that both the risk and cost of the operation to America "will be reduced significantly."
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So who are we?
Folks enabling the spread of radical Islam in N Africa?
How is that in the USAs interest?
Attacking on ‘human rights’ grounds puts most of the planet in play.
If this is a humanitarian mission how come we aren’t bombing Haiti and Japan?
Donald should take that ferret on his head and unleash it on Obama’s narrah ass
Whatever Obamy says one day, means nothing the next... there is no real moral principal that he or the left follows but for the whim of the day, which makes them dangerous. They may decide one day, that it is moral to eradicate those who impede their progress.
or mexico.
I would gladly pay one thousand dollars to see someone come up behind Obama while he’s making one of his droning nothing speeches and kick him right in his ass.
They already have.
Witness Eric Holder.
Well, I don’t know of any tsunami or earthquake rescue missions going on in Mexico at the present time.
we have a strategic and moral obligation to invade X country and no we don’t need approval from Congress, because I say so
No, not really, we are not all muslims Obama
But support of what? What is the mission in Libya? To keep the army away from the civilian population? I could see that having some pretty good sense, but we didn't attack Libya while that was going on, we attacked Libya when the armed civil war was going against the anti-government forces and they were just about to be crushed.
So if Qudaffi just sends in 10,000 armed guys on foot, then everything’s just fine? Or are we enforcing a cease fire that the rebellion has no intention of abiding and intends to use the hammering of loyalist forces to secure better positions and recapture territory they lost. Is the end goal to have Libya be a city and a few tents and then little states surrounding it?
Did the president actually explain what the goal is, or was it just a speech filled with lofty idealism without ever bothering to apply that idealism to the real world situation on the ground? Are we just reenacting Korea all over again, abandoning a core population to an insane dictator and telling our men and women to just..do enough so it can be settled at the negotiating table?
Obama’s teleprompter has a singular skill, that of talking about lofty idealism and soaring rhetoric that has nothing to do with anything in real life. And of course, the chimpanzee peanut gallery of the mainstream media is likely already talking about this being a monumental speech, uplifting to a worried nation, without asking the essential question: Would that nation be worried were it not for a surprise and squandering waste of resources in Libya?
Japan????
I was half-listening to Nightline while on the computer and overheard two questionable statements by the host regarding the speech. He said Obama claimed in his speech that he ordered the attack because Kadaffi (sp? who knows?) was killing his own people. Didn’t Saddam gas the Kurds, yet Obama voted against the war in Iraq? Obama claimed in the speech that there was a moral imperative to protect life....yet as a state senator he voted in support of late term abortion. The hypocrisy goes on and on.....
Yeah. Japan.
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