Our friend Janet sent us this article by columnist Don Feder that I think captures the essence of Obama’s great adventure in Libya.
Feder begins:
What’s even more absurd and futile than going to war to spread democracy and advance human rights? Intervention to stop regimes from “killing their own people.”
This is the sole rationale offered for Obama’s Libya excursion (Operation Odyssey Dawn even sounds like a Carnival Cruise ship) – to keep a tyrant from killing his own people.
British Prime Minister David Cameron declares: “Colonel Gaddafi has made this happen. We can not allow the slaughter of civilians to continue.”
While criticizing the way the mission was undertaken (and telling the president he “must do a better job of communicating to the American people”), House Speaker John Boehner – de facto chairman of the Obama Reelection Campaign – nevertheless insists: “It’s unacceptable and outrageous for Gaddafi to attack his own people, and the violence must stop.” From this beastly behavior, you will desist at once!
Feder goes on to describe the folly of such a mission and lists all the places where, according to Obama’s mission for our military intervention, we have failed to stop regimes from killing their own people. Read it all!
Ann Corcoran
Judy K. Warner
