Posted on 03/28/2011 10:15:59 AM PDT by John W
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) says he agrees with how President Obama has used the nation’s military to handle the crisis in Libya.
In a phone interview with The Hill newspaper, Hunter defended Obama against critics on the right and the left who have questioned his decision to use force against Libyan strongman Moammer Qaddafi.
“I agree with the president. I agree with what he’s done so far on his use of force. I agree on his timing. I agree on the fact that he went in with a coalition,” Hunter said.
A former Marine captain who did combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, Hunter told The Hill that he knows that his views on Libya are somewhat unpopular on Capitol Hill.
“Everybody’s taking their potshots at [Obama], but what else are we supposed to do? Are we supposed to sit back and do nothing?”
“Are we supposed to sit back and do nothing?”
YES.
It is flat-out stupid to get involved in another country’s civil war.
“Are we supposed to sit back and do nothing?”
And why not, when the choice is between terrorist Al-Quaida and a terrorist dictator?
Poor Pissant...
So Duncan do we go to Syria next? That sob Assad will have those people mowed down too.
“...but what else are we supposed to do? Are we supposed to sit back and do nothing?”
If this statement alone doesn’t disqualify this imbecile from future public office I don’t know what would.
Not surprised. Duncan was wrong about a lot of things including the auto bailout, No Child Left Behind, and the prescription drugs boondogle...despite attempts by his starry-eyed backers to ignore same.
I was thinking more along the lines of "don't interrupt."
Exactly.
Let the Europeans act in their own interests for a change.
No, we should skip that island (SW Pac strategy) and go directly to Iran.
With Iran gone, Assad will fall of his own weight
LLS
Some on the left believe that U.S. Troops should only be used for humanitarian purposes, and only where the U.S. has little strategic national interest.
(If we do have an interest in Libya, it should be to keep Gaddafi IN power, not remove him).
Just great. Even Hunter has been poisoned by the Beltway.
Not satisfied with building a nanny state, now we must have a nanny world.
I don’t care who these people are. THEY ARE WRONG!
Concerning national security Alexander Hamilton said, “Because it is impossible to foresee or define the extent and variety of national exigencies….no constitutional shackles can be wisely imposed on the power to which the care of it is committed. Since Libya poses no national exigency (emergency), Obama cannot espouse that statement for war.
Next as criteria for war come natural rights where Thomas Jefferson writes, “all men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. Eleanor Roosevelt defines our U.N. commitment to collective security by writing that equal and inalienable rights for the human family encompass rights to life, liberty and security of person. John Kennedy reinforced this commitment saying, “We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.” Finally, Ronald Reagan said we cannot escape destiny as the last best hope of afflicted mankind.
However, Barack Obama cannot claim natural rights as criteria for Libyan action, because he considered preventing genocide inconsistent reasoning for maintaining troops in Iraq; pointing out our un-involvement in the Congo and Darfur.
This leaves John Kerry’s international test making the U.S. subservient to worldwide conscience. Under that criteria Libya becomes more equal than the Congo, Sudan, Rwanda, and Uganda. Uninterrupted European access to natural resources seems the paramount reasoning, with humanitarian protection purely random.
Such reasoning required that Congressional debate accompany Obama’s leisurely deliberations.
LINKS:
White House Hopeful Barack Obama Says Preventing Genocide Isn’t Reason to Keep U.S. Troops in Iraq
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,290073,00.html
Obama: Don’t stay in Iraq over genocide
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19862711/ns/politics-decision_08/
Mr Hunter, we - and especially you - should adhere to the U.S. Constitution; and see to it that the President is impeached for committing our forces to war without the consent of Congress.
Okay, but what do Duncan Hines, Betty Crocker and the Pillsbury Doughboy think?
Sitting back and doing nothing is a good option when you’re broke as hell and getting broker by the billions every minute that passes.
Why are we in the UN again?
There is no perfect candidate. There is no perfect politician.
That’s why I ALWAYS support the lesser of two evils, and don’t like the opus-es of those who declare they aren’t voting because someone isn’t pure enough.
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