[Carley]

We notice how hard he’s worked to protect the people in Darfur.

[ClearCase_guy]

Yet Obama has so far been reluctant to fully explain any of this to either Congress or the American public, perhaps because he realizes that the ideological basis of his actions would not be popular if openly admitted.

True for all policy areas.

His entire past history, and his real ideological basis must be kept hidden. It would spoil everything if people knew the truth.

[skeeter]

Kurtz just described every president since Reagan.

The past three presidents have sought to make humanitarian interventions more of a group effort.

But they haven't had as their primary goal the undermining of the US's founding charter.

Until this one. It informs his every move.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

This article assumes the fool is capable of thought. That is a debateable presumption.

[stylin19a]

Obama doesn’t tell you what he’s thinking

He waits for Valerie Bowman Jarrett to tell him what he's thinking.

[Seruzawa]

Obama doesn’t tell you what he’s thinking.

But I already know. He's always thinking, "How can I forward the international communist movement? All hail Marx, Lenin and Trotsky."

[TigersEye]

What Samantha Power and her supporters want is to solidify the principle of “responsibility to protect” in international law. That requires a “pure” case of intervention on humanitarian grounds.

When does the "international community" go into Mexico? Thousands more are being killed there than in Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

[Razzz42]

With O’bummer, his actions speak louder than his teleprompter.

Russia and China have no problem stating where they stand on this matter.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Yet for years, Samantha Power, a prominent advocate of humanitarian intervention and a key backer of our action in Libya, has been a powerful member of Obama’s foreign policy team."

Just read her wiki entry. Of course she never served a day in the military. A big advocate of sending in America's military for every humanitarian mission that comes down the pipe. But never willing to put her own rear end on the line. Typical ivory tower liberal.

The first question asked about Libya and sending in our military should be if it's in our national interests. Not whether it's a humanitarian mission...

[nolongerademocrat]

I think he’s just removing a potential blackmailer before 2012. After all, couldn’t the whole Odinga thing come back in a big way during his reelection campaign?