This is a military operation now. It appears to have shocked certain people that a nice, sterile "no-fly" zone could actually involve taking out the opposition, although no one who watched Iraq could possibly have been mistaken in the matter. It appears to be surprising people who should know better that military operations work best in a strict hierarchy with a single individual making the decisions at the top. They don't work well by committee.
Mr. B. Hussein 0bama is the President of the United States. What he needs to do is declare U.S. interests and pursue them. Not UN interests, not idiotic R2P internationalist theory, but what the people who are doing the shooting expect to accomplish. With any sort of leadership the forces in theater could crush Gaddafi in days. With no leadership, this happens.
Collective security is only as strong as the determination of its constituent members allows. Here it has failed. It has failed through incompetent leadership, through each of the "allies" if one can use that word, pursuing his own separate interests. It has failed because the arrogant, grinning fools besotted with "soft power" and diplomatic solutions now find themselves actually in charge of military activity instead of second-guessing and Viewing With Alarm, and they aren't up to the job.
This was supposed to be a slam-dunk, a chance for an effeminate, self-absorbed Caesar to ride the lead chariot in front of real soldiers in the triumphal parade. Given the preponderance of pure power it would take someone of fantastic incompetence to screw it up. Mailing it in from Rio, 0bama managed even that.
It had been literally several weeks (at least 2) between vacations and the man needed a rest. One more thing, just because a guy throws like a girl, held hands with various POCK-ee-stahni room mates, wears "Mom" jeans, rides a girl's bike, belongs to a gay steam room in Chicago, has a gay party planner, had a Chief of Staff who was a ballet dancer, is married to a potential Eagles linebacker, and is accused of snorting coke with a horny gay guy in limos, is no reason for you to call him "effeminate."
Please show proper respect for the POTUS, who as you well know, is a victim of racism. As soon as the POTUS and his 1000-people posse get back from Latin America, I am reporting you to Reggie Love.