Posted on 06/26/2011 7:35:57 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Glenn Reynolds on our Great Libyan Misadventure:
Libya is a “dumb war” — because it’s halfhearted, half-assed, and run by committee, and the President can’t even articulate the national interest involved. Obama the candidate said he was smarter than that. Obama the President is proving the candidate wrong.
Not quite. Candidate Obama was shrewd enough to say whatever he needed to get elected. President Obama is in over his head. “Half-assed” is his preferred method for waging war, as we’ve seen now in Afghanistan and in Libya. A surge with an end-date is not a surge. “Leading from behind” is not leadership. Especially when you prod your allies — the ones you’re “leading” into doing your dirty work — into upping the ante to “regime change,” without dedicating the necessary assets.
Can we call that “half-asser?” Half-assest? Fully-assed? I await your suggestions.
Meanwhile, the GOP has proven itself, yet again, to be the Stupid Party — and Congress has shown itself so risk-averse as to be useless.
First, Congress voted on a toothless resolution “scolding” the President for waging war on Libya in violation of the War Powers Act. That made them look even more ineffectual than usual. But given a chance to vote on a resolution with some teeth — to defund the Libya War — Congress punted.
Big surprise.
What we have here is a President with balls enough to behave with more brazen lawlessness than any president since Nixon, and a cowardly Congress unwilling to do much more than emit the occasional squawk.
From Libya to the debt ceiling negotiations to simple day-to-day governance — if there’s a way our lawfulness & leadership vacuum serves us well, please let me know.
Maybe I will need a case of Moose Drool Beer...Dam we need someone with balls...Where are you Sarah!!!!!!!!!!!
What is a surprise is that Congress DID ANYTHING to push back against the total rule of the President. They did not do enough, but they did something. That something might help the law suit that is underway. They rejected the President’s choice to go to war. He’s at war. A judge might decide the constitution’s separation of power are still meaningful and enforceable.
The reason Bammy does not express why he’s in Libya is not because he “can not.” He will not. He will not say what he is doing in the radical foreign policy of regime changes he is orchestrating in the Middle East. He will not say he is turning Muslim nations over to the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood which produced Hamas and Al Quaeda.
The writer has at least one thing correct, the Republican are the stupid party and exceptionally risk averse.
Right now there is no difference in parties. Until the GOP stands up an fights Obama they are all just the same. The GOP walked out on the budget deal but they will cave again. We are doomed.
It doesn’t take much balls to send some pilots and allies into a fight with Libya. He wanders through the presidency like someone stuck at the bottom of a 1,000 foot mine shaft at midnight with no lights on a cloudy night with no moon. “Let’s go golfing...that’s the trick!”
There is another player, an element if you will, that the writer omit’s, the MSM. I have never been more aware of a complete abdication of responsibility by a “profession” to serve the public, (a once proudly upheld tradition). Instead they have become a propaganda arm of their own intrest. Libyian Rebels??? Show me, all I hear is rhetoric. Debt crisis??? They just print money...what crisis...besides like me, the gov’t can proirtize obligations, like intrest on the debt, and reduce spending on the “want’s” like Ohh I don’t know how many maiden’s in waiting does Meeechelle have? Or 99 weeks of free money to able bodied people who do not ever try to replace a lost job...not unsympathetic here, but a case by case analysis
is needed, not a broad Gov’t mandate. All this the Media hype’s or Ignores, depending on what picture it serves them to paint.
“Leading from behind” is not leadership. Especially when you prod your allies — the ones you’re “leading” into doing your dirty work.
I think Obama has handled the Libyan issue quite well. Libya provided about 10% of European oil and only 2% of ours. It’s about time Europe carried its weight in it’s own defense. There are some promising developments in the Libyan struggle. Google “Libya news” to keep up to date. I find UK Telegraph site fairly informative.
Were paying for most of it????
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