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Key For Obama: Don't Escalate Libyan Mission
IBD Editorials ^ | March 25, 2011 | FAREED ZAKARIA

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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1 posted on 03/25/2011 5:13:18 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
He doesn't even have a key to the Ovoid Orifice.

Worse, there is no proctological solution!

2 posted on 03/25/2011 5:23:10 PM PDT by Young Werther ("Quae cum ita sunt" Since these things are so!)
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To: Kaslin
Key For Obama:

Pulling for the brotherhood.

france-handle it

3 posted on 03/25/2011 5:35:48 PM PDT by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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To: Kaslin
At its broadest, Obama's diplomacy over the last two weeks has tried to redefine the exercise of destroy American power. It is an effort at a distinctive form of multilateralism to reduce American prestige and trust, deeper than anything any president has tried before. Fixed it.
4 posted on 03/25/2011 5:44:51 PM PDT by RedMDer (restoration of our honor, dignity, and freedoms will save America. - Sarah Palin)
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To: RedMDer

So much for LEADERSHIP.


5 posted on 03/25/2011 5:45:58 PM PDT by 4Liberty (88% of Americans are NON-UNION. We value honest, peaceful Free trade-NOT protectionist CARTELS)
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To: 4Liberty

That Marxist bastard is leading us to our destruction. On Purpose.


6 posted on 03/25/2011 5:51:59 PM PDT by RedMDer (restoration of our honor, dignity, and freedoms will save America. - Sarah Palin)
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To: Kaslin

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.


7 posted on 03/25/2011 6:59:48 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: Kaslin

What in the hell is Americas interest in mooslums killing mooslums, damn sick.


8 posted on 03/25/2011 7:59:29 PM PDT by org.whodat
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