9 thoughts on “Into The Libyan Labyrinth”

  2. VDH must’ve written that before the administration decided that the US was done with air missions and that NATO can handle the rest. Why would Obama want to pursue the conflict further? Ohio State is long gone and UConn will probably hold on to Tripoli, so why support Butler or the rebels?

    Still, I don’t think history is going to have much respect for Obama. FDR was in a wheelchair and his fight was unbounded. Truman made hats for living but he had a spine. Reagan was an actor who didn’t shrink from anything. The closest analog to Obama in geopolitics and military affairs is probably a stoner teenager who works at the earring kiosk at the mall.

  4. Mark Steyn’s commentary in the latest issue is rather more entertaining. For example: “Say what you like about Barack Obama, but it’s rare to find a leader so impeccably multilateralist he’s willing to participate in both sides of a war. It doesn’t exactly do much for holding it under budget, but it does ensure that for once we’ve got a sporting chance of coming out on the winning side.”

  6. I thought I misunderstood that part about bombing the rebels when I heard it.

    “Hmmm…,” says I, “…we’re attacking BOTH sides in Libya? That’s not going to help our image in the Middle East. I thought the Democrats were all about our image in the Middle East, hmmm!?”

    I missed that because I was still whirring over OUR military under NATO control!! I thought there were Constitutional restraints about ‘loaning’ our troops out to anyone by placing them under foreign control.

    What does that make Mr. Obama? The Loaner-in Chief?

    Of course the obvious is right there to see. He’s slick, slicker than most. No matter what happens he can hide behind BOTH sides of his decision.

    IF they, or we lose or screw things up in Libya, he can blame the NATO commanders.

    If things go well, he can claim victory, and look how good HIS decisions were in placing our guys under NATO control.

    (and of course, that set’s a dangerous precedent for the future, I think)

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