Posted by
Bill Crawford on Tuesday, March 29, 2011 2:20:51 PM
I try to give this guy a chance. He's beat me over the head with his audacious shovel so many times, but hell, this is still my country and he is the duly elected President, right?
Well, we're in Libya now, and I still haven't figured out why we are in Afghanistan. To be fair, Bush wasn't very good at explaining why we were in Iraq, but I could use his speeches from just after 9/11 to deduct a few good reasons. I haven't been able to do that with Kabul, and I refuse to stoop to passing it off as the extention of a campaign promise.
Now, Obama busted on many of the rules that he set as Senator, when taking Bush down to size in 2006-07. But that doesn't matter. Why? Because he is a moral relaitivist, that's why. He doesn't care if today's needs contradict yesterdays.
He kept his friendship with the mainstream media out of intensive care by not asking them for prime time for his speech, and then being good enough to bail out at 7:59pm.
For starters, his speech showed that, three years into office, he STILL can't stop using George Bush as a pinata. He needed to speak up and tell us all what was in the "national interests". First, Gadhafi was a bad man and awful things happened on his watch. Second, it is all OK, because "unlike Iraq", it was a miultilateral effort.
How's that? So how was Iraq so wrong in 2002? We went to the UN twice. Bush went to Congress at least once more often than Obama did here. And Hussien did some nasty things, too. What about Syria? Why not there? Surely he knows how many rockets they are firing into Isreal right now.
Or, as Barrack Obama once opined in "The Audacity of Hope", "Why invade Iraq and not North Korea or Burma? Why intervene in Bosnia and not Darfur?"
The man is a lawyer, what do you expect? A good lawyer knows how to talk clearly, when it is in their best interests. They also know how to put up a wall of bull, when clarity is not your friend.
He'll pass this off on NATO as fast as he can. This is not a priority of his. He was hoping for an "organic" revolution in the Middle East- where the West would nothave to intervene. Gadhafi laid an egg on that path. And now, Obama wants to show us that he was on this thing all along.