(for those generation x and y it is a reference to an old bath bubble commercial)
Because watching what is happening in Libya is only making me want to hide somewhere. I envy Mika of Morning Joe who gets to poll the folks in the South of France about the latest incursions.
If I didn't have all these bills I might defect to Monaco.
Here is why Libya is not the Balkans where the air power with minimal casualties turned a genocide into a good resolve. There the I-4 you recall came in under UN auspices and protection as NATO forces stopped the genocide of Milosovich who died before final verdict in his war crimes trial. Someone tell them NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Org. not North African Treaty Org. Without Germany, Russia and Turkey there is no NATO backing for anything, and certainly not in North Africa. Merkel has pulled all German ships from the Mediterranean because she wants no part of invasion in Libya. Strategic miscalculation No.1
Strategic miscalculation No.2
Someone is going to have to bring ground troops to bear if we aren't done until the Regime is changed because Khadaffi wasn't fighting an air war to begin with. Obama knows as much now and is saying things like-all options on the table, we rule nothing out, etc... If we launch another Afghanistan or Iraq-style ground troop invasion in Libya we are in real trouble. Iraq is probably the single greatest Foreign Policy disaster since WWII we have ever engaged in and we are still there eight years later. Obama just lost his base. He rode in on Anti-Iraq Anti-War sentiment and he is proving himself dumber than the predecessor. And more elite ivy league arrogant.
Hillary is hinting as leaked apparently that Khadaffi is looking for a way out in exhile perhaps- not bloody likely and very wishful thinking. He ruled for over forty years and he will go down with his ship because his religion views martyrdom as the highest calling. And that's all we need- a head of state as an Islamic Martyr.
How you invade without the plans prior to back up what you say you are going to do first looks totally immature and foolish. No, it looks downright Reckless.
People should now be prepared to run Biden against Obama and put up other people for the Democratic nomination because Obama cannot win in 2012.
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