Pulling for the brotherhood.
Posted on 03/25/2011 5:13:16 PM PDT by Kaslin
President Obama has launched an operation that has two distinctive qualities, one highly unusual, even historic, and the other quite familiar.
At its broadest, Obama's diplomacy over the last two weeks has tried to redefine the exercise of American power. It is an effort at a distinctive form of multilateralism, deeper than anything any president has tried before.
But Obama is also proposing a limited military intervention for a problem in which America's interests are limited. That's something that presidents in the past have promised but mostly been unable to deliver as events on the ground forced them to escalate for fear of being humiliated.
However wise his multilateral instincts, it is how Obama handles this latter problem that will determine the mission's success — and duration.
For decades American presidents have unilaterally identified crises, articulated responses, determined actions and then persuaded, bribed and threatened countries to join in the "collective action." The U.S. ran the show with little interference from others, but paid the price and bore the burden.
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Worse, there is no proctological solution!
Pulling for the brotherhood.
So much for LEADERSHIP.
That Marxist bastard is leading us to our destruction. On Purpose.
Easier said than done since NATO says they will keep the No-Fly Zone part of the kinetic military action and the U.S. can take the “control Qaddafi’s forces on the ground” part.
What in the hell is Americas interest in mooslums killing mooslums, damn sick.
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