Posted on 07/14/2011 10:24:16 PM PDT by Borough Park
Almost daily over the last four months we were told that Moammar Gadhafi was about ready to throw in the towel and give up.
Libya, after all, is not a distant Afghanistan or Iraq with a population of some 30 million. Yet this tiny police state of less than 7 million people, conveniently located on the Mediterranean Sea opposite nearby Europe, continues to thwart the three great powers of the NATO alliance and thousands of “Arab Spring” rebels.
In March, President Obama ordered the use of American bombers and cruise missiles to join in with the French and British to finish off the tottering Gadhafi regime. Obama was apparently stung by liberal criticism that the U.S. had done little to help rebels in their weeks-long effort to remove Gadhafi – after only belatedly supporting the successful revolutionaries in Tunisia and Egypt.
Months ago, intervention to the Obama administration seemed a short, painless way of ridding the world of a decades-long international menace while gaining praise for helping “democratic” reformers. Oil, of course, is always a subtext in any Middle Eastern war.
But almost immediately contradictions arose. Sometimes we ordered Gadhafi to leave; at other times we insisted we were only helping the rebels. Bombs seemed to be aimed at the Gadhafi family, even as we denied such targeted killing – and were reminded that U.S. law forbids the assassination of foreign leaders.
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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/07/14/a_dumb_and_dumber_war_in_libya_110570.html
going to war without congress
assassinating foreign leaders is against US law
But noone is going to care if Obama break any laws. If Bush did the same thing, he be a war criminal under US law
He needs another Peace Prize.
Don’t you just love it how the left-wing media labeled Bush a “War President” and then the adoring left gave Obama a Nobel Peace Prize.
Two weeks later he sent 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan (nearly twice as many as Kennedy ever sent to his fiasco in Vietnam), and subsequently opens new fronts in “Bush’s” Wars on Terror in Pakistan, Yemen and Libya.
The media is silent.
Ummm...
Let's count where Obama is shooting people, shall we?
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