Posted on 04/26/2011 8:37:05 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner
Please make up your mind, Mr. President. You can’t vacillate when spending America’s human and fiscal resources in yet another foreign country without good reason. You said that Libyan leader Gaddafi has got to go. Many of us heard that as your call to action and agreed, “Okay, you’re right. He’s an evil dictator who kills his own innocent people, so enforce a no-fly zone so he can’t continue an aerial slaughter.” But then you said our mission in Libya isn’t to oust Gaddafi after all. (Or vice versa on the order or your statements. Between you and your advisers the public has been given so many conflicting statements on why we’re intervening in Libya that I apologize if I can’t keep up with the timing and rationale of your murky foreign policy positions.)
At this point, to avoid further mission creep and involvement in a third war – one we certainly can’t afford – you need to step up and justify our Libyan involvement, or Americans are going to demand you pull out. Simply put, what are we doing there? You’ve put us in a strategic no man’s land. If Gaddafi’s got to go, then tell NATO our continued participation hinges on this: We strike hard and Gaddafi will be gone. If, as you and your spokesmen suggest, we’re not to tell Libya what to do when it comes to that country’s leadership, and if you can’t explain to Americans why we’re willing to protect Libyan resources and civilians but not Syria’s, Yemen’s, Bahrain’s, Egypt’s, Israel’s, etc., then there is no justification for U.S. human and fiscal resources to be spent.
I would also ask you to better explain your thinking on Libya. We can’t afford any actions that don’t take care of crucial U.S. needs and meet our own interests at this point. You are the Commander in Chief, so please explain what you believe is our “interest” there and not elsewhere.
Mr. President, your hesitation and vacillation in the Middle East breed uncertainty. It’s symptomatic of the puzzling way you govern. See, uncertainty is one of the factors over which you have control, and I would think you’d want to eliminate that additional element that helps breed problems like higher oil prices. Higher oil means exorbitant gas prices weighing down our economy. Consistency and strength – and greater domestic energy production – will help fix higher gas prices and help heal the economy. But only with leadership. These sorts of problems don’t fix themselves.
It’s unbelievable to me that you spent last week in campaign mode, gallivanting around the country to start raising the billion dollars for your reelection bid that is still 19 months away “while Rome burns.” Our economy is in the tank; jobs are as scarce as ever; you’re asking Congress to let you incur even more unsustainable, immoral, freedom-stealing government debt; and many of our brave men and women in uniform are shaking their heads in disbelief over your befuddled military directions. Yet instead of working with Congress and a wise multitude of advisers to fix some problems, you choose all this campaigning, already? As was recently asked: When do you ever just “roll up your sleeves, unplug the teleprompter” and do the job of governing and administrating for which voters hired you?
I know, I know, granted you will be even busier very soon. After all, golf season kicks into high gear shortly. NBA and NHL brackets await. Summer vacations and that all-consuming campaign whistle stop tour will no doubt slam you. But I would ask, while the rest of us are also busy working, saving, planning ahead, fighting to protect our Constitution, and trying to keep up with where and why you’re spending our Department of Defense funds – I’d ask that you find time to tell Americans the truth about the state of our union and what you are doing to find solutions to our challenges. Please start with explaining Libya.
- Sarah Palin
That’s going to leave a mark.
*********Palin Ping************
Can we say obomba just got slapped hard?
Just read this at FB. Ka-blam! Momma calls him out.
I think Sarah was pretty much the first to play hardball, but Trump stepped it up a notch or two and he got boatloads of publicity for it.
Looks like Sarah is now upping the ante.
She is so great!
Good question.
Personally, I think any involvement in Libya was a huge mistake. Fighting on the wrong side, helping the terrorists, prolonging the conflict, increasing the body count. I agree that Sarah can’t say that, because she is too much of a public figure, and it would be damaging for her to say what to do without any power to do it. But the points she makes are good enough.
Pulling out now, after going in, will damage our reputation and anger our allies. But staying in will hurt us even worse. And frankly England and France have behaved extremely stupidly on this.
Be still my beating heart.
Get this woman a professional writer, Stat!
Agree with all except the inference oblahblah is interested in the NHL. Ain’t no brothas up in there!
Ridiculous! That is an extremely well-written piece. Or is this a case for the sarcasm tag?
What, you don't understand plain old everyday mainstreet American English?
I think on the same wavelength as Palin. Prhaps it is just me, but I can’t see the flaws in her logic.
Get ‘EM my future POTUS!!!
LOL. But that is what gives her so much charm. She is like me in so many ways and I am reminded of it whenever I read her articles.
No sarcasm from that one. He’s a PDS’er.
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