Posted on 03/30/2011 6:35:52 AM PDT by IbJensen
In his speech on Libya Monday evening, President Barack Obama demonstrated why self-congratulation is an awful basis for foreign policy. The stated aim of the address was to tell the American people "what we've done [in Libya], what we plan to do, and why this matters to us." That might have been a genuinely interesting bit of oratory. It is not what we actually heard.
Perhaps the wrong speech got loaded onto his teleprompter, because the preachment Obama delivered fudged the past, gave us weasel words in place of real goals, and substituted a vigorous Nobel Peace Prize-winning pat on the back for any good reason to make this our fight. The evasions of fact and friction were so breathtaking that they need to be cataloged for posterity. What I offer here is only a first and flawed attempt:
1. What national interest? Obama said that when Americans' "interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act." These are two very different things. If America got into it with other nations every time they offended our values, we would need a much bigger military. (Maybe we could borrow China's?)
By putting interests and values together, Obama tried to pull a switcheroo. He said that if he had "waited one more day" to act, a massacre might have occurred in the city of Benghazi, which might have "stained the conscience of the world." He explained, "It was not in our national interest to let that happen." More to the point, "I refused to let that happen."
2. What Constitution? The "one more day" line helped to set up Obama's justification for not seeking a congressional resolution for US actions in Libya.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Rush said yesterday that the socialist media is foaming at the mouth to get this thug seen as the next great international statesman, on level with Churchhill, etc. Said that even if old MooooMar quits in 2 or 4 weeks, that the Thug’s threats caused him to run off and thus is now the best the world has to offer. To me he remains a street thug.
He’s typical sewer scum from that cesspool we refer to as Chicago.
All the demoncrats love a corrupt liar. He is the most pathetic excuse of a president and that includes the Peanut King.
Pretty well covers it.
(CNN) — On a day when opposition forces in Libya suffered battlefield losses, President Barack Obama made clear in interviews Tuesday with the three major U.S. television networks that he was open to arming the rebel fighters.
“I’m not ruling it out, but I’m also not ruling it in,” Obama told NBC in one of the separate interviews he gave the day after a nationally televised speech on the Libya situation.
“I think it’s fair to say that if we wanted to get weapons into Libya, we probably could,” Obama told ABC. “We’re looking at all our options at this point.”
The speech was dominated by a presumption that Daffy will step down because the Obama got involved. Between this sheer narcissism vs total fear of blame for casualties, there is no other option for the Obama than to wait Daffy out.
Daffy, being a survivor of actual violence by perpetrating violence, will see this speech as proof of weakness and will be emboldened to continue. He is willing to shed blood to stay in power, but the Obama isn’t willing to shed blood to remove him. Ergo, Daffy will do what he knows works: kill until the people submit.
Nice opening, Mr. President. Pity you gave up the game after the first move.
Kenyan to America: I attacked Libya because Hillary threatened to quit and make me look bad.
That’s all folks.
Kenyan to America: I attacked Libya because Hillary threatened to quit and make me look bad.
That’s all folks.
Also make up some Obama doctrines since he wont:
Like : “Start a war with good intentions but if it doesn't work out it's not my fault, I left NATO in charge, you rebels are on your own “
Or : “Call for rebels to rise up and resist their government (unless it's the Tea party peaceful protests) and we will help starve them (rebels) into submission with sanctions”
BTW, the ears match...
He attacked Libya because Qaddafi is too secular for the Caliphate and because Libya produces $130 million of oil a day which can go a long way with the MB and Al Qaeda.
The problem is that Joe Biden was wandering around that mosque in San Francisco and he never received that suitcase full of Libyan campaign donations. Here’s the message, “Pony-up that Democrat campaign donation money or the cruise missiles will start flying!”
Yowzer-----an Obama “Mission Accomplished Moment"-------THAT I would like to see.
Should not be hard to facilitate......just photoshop Obama on an aircraft carrier with a big “Mission Accomplished” sign and plaster it allover the internet-------maybe on billboards allover the nation. ROTFL.
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