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The USA is NOT leading this charge ( I don’t think Obama is capable of leading ).

US has just finally begun considering a military strike against Moammar Gaddafi’s forces in Libya in an effort to save beleaguered rebel forces in Benghazi.

In other words, we’re “mulling” it.

If the US had decided from the beginning that military action was off the table, that would have been a defensible position to take. If the US wanted to impose a military solution to support the rebels, that also would have been defensible.

Had Barack Obama seized the moment to lead the West in either direction, at the very least we would have set an example and demonstrated some sort of principle, either Wilsonian defense against tyranny and oppression or a recognition of the international constraints of sovereignty.

The lack of leadership and the vacillation on whether to take military action is utterly indefensible, and this thirteenth-hour suggestion that we will now prepare to think about committing our military against Gaddafi after the game is almost over demonstrates nothing but weakness and incompetence.

At this point in time, if Obama ever makes a decision, he’d be following the UN’s lead.

If the US had decided from the beginning that military action was off the table, that would have been a defensible position to take. If the US wanted to impose a military solution to support the rebels, that also would have been defensible.

Exactly. When you are a leader you get to pick your fights. The thing that scares me about Obama is that he isn't leading, but isn't paying attention to where we are being lead either. I could just see France and Italy starting a shooting war, and then expecting us to furnish the troops. And Obama is so weak that it would never occur to him to tell them they were on their own. My worst nightmare is not war with Libya, but it is a war in which US troops are forced to fight under French or Saudi command. They will just throw us into the meat grinder of someone elses war and we will not even earn a mercenaries wadge.

“In other words, we’re “mulling” it.”

So in the street patois Obama uses when it suits him, he would be a “mullah”?