The Daily Caller reports: “Some Democratic advocates are already touting President Barack Obama’s Libyan intervention as a success, but others, including Democratic foreign-policy gurus, worry that a continued stand-off will damage the president’s polls and wreck efforts to boost the role of transnational organizations, such as the United Nations.”
It is not surprising, liberals are all over the map, or for that matter conservatives have very different views of what the White House is up to. That’s because the President has finally succeeded in bringing Washington together—all sides are confused over what exactly the mission in Libya is. Most media outlets agree. We are currently seeing headlines like: “NATO Struggles to Define Libya Role“, “Navy chief: We don’t know what happens next in Libya war“, and “No ‘timeline’ for end of Libya operation.”
An ill-defined mission can spell disaster for a military operation. A clear declaration of purpose is vital to avoid “mission creep” – an expansion of commitments beyond the original goal of the operation. First and foremost, the President must clearly articulate the mission of U.S. operations in Libya and clarify U.S. interests. Neither stating that the U.S. is helping “protect civilians” nor declaring that American ground troops will not be applied is sufficient. Stating that the U.S. is not pursuing “regime change” is a declaration of what the mission is not, not what it is.
The President needs a more prudent course for his Libyan adventure.Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) raised similar questions in a letter he sent to the President yesterday:
I respect your authority as Commander-in-Chief and support our troops as they carry out their mission. But I and many other members of the House of Representatives are troubled that U.S. military resources were committed to war without clearly defining for the American people, the Congress, and our troops what the mission in Libya is and what America’s role is in achieving that mission. In fact, the limited, sometimes contradictory, case made to the American people by members of your Administration has left some fundamental questions about our engagement unanswered. At the same time, by contrast, it appears your Administration has consulted extensively on these same matters with foreign entities such as the United Nations and the Arab League.
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I read today that Barry is going to update Congress by the end of the month about Libya. Whats the hurry Barry. If the Arab league wanted this guy taking out, let them do it. Barry is really taking a chance in Libya this close to 2012. People criticize President Bush for staying and insuring that Iraq And Afghanistan are stable after beating both of their armies in Weeks not years,. I don't prefer to call this nation building, more of insuring you would need to repeat this in the future. A for Libya, I really don't see how this is going to pan out. This could be still a mess in 2012 but the Left Steam Media will claim victory Barry and not report on it. Another missing report by the Left Stream Media is the bombs dropping in on Israel these days. Selective journalism, which I do agree Fox and CNN, and the others that don't even get a enough viewers to repeat their names are guilt of. We should rename the profession of new reporters to, the information I and my channel find fit to report. Silly isn't it?
sorry for the miss types. Got a touch of the old arthritis today. Sound it out and make your own conclusions.
"Barry is really taking a chance in Libya this close to 2012."
Actually, I think he's taking a bigger chance doing it this far out from 2012. It's easy to get Americans and their media behind a "war," whether in Grenada, Panama, Iraq, Bosnia, Somalia, Afghanistan, or Iraq again. It's difficult keeping them behind the war effort when they wake up.
Part of the reason we ended up with Clinton as president was because other Dems were afraid to run when the Persian Gulf War gave George H.W. Bush an approval rating of over 90 percent just over a year before the presidential election. Look how that turned out for George.
Fighter aircraft in the sky – soldier in the mud, or sand, no difference.
Our military is still in harm's way.
So much for the LIE about no ground troops – we've already had two of them anyway, downed plane, pilots on foot, 'troops' on the ground.
When will Rand, or Ron, Paul demand the arrest of Obama?
Obama committed this nation to war with no authorization what-so-ever.
The Joint Chiefs who follow the Obama folly are guilty of breaching their Oath and the Constitution, they are guilty of High Treason.
Barack Hussein cannot solve problems at home and he does not know foreign affairs at all. He is completely useless to America. How in HELL did he Take the dumb voters by surprise. He bought them, thats how !!
Obama's biggest help was and still is the stupid MSM.
Gary I am just glad I am not serving during these times, it kind of reminds me of the Jimmy Carter years. The lack of understanding the real world and not the made up world in Barry's mind is Clouding his mind. When have you ever heard of a President send Planes into a country, start a war and then get on Air Force One to another country to tell them here is 2 Billion dollars go drill for oil in your back yard and we will buy it. What was that? Then we are suppose to believe that the birthers are crazy?. Then he went to El Salvador and drank wine for spring break or something. Talk about out of touch, no out of his feakin mind is more like it. I think a recall is in order.
When the gulf oil spill was going on, I think anytime somebody said "Gulf", he said
which course and where's my clubs!
LOL
There was another article that I was trying to reply to you on, where I was telling you
that I tried posting some stuff and then over 12 hours later it wasn't there.
Anyway, one of them was a newsclip on how Barry may possibly be bi-polar.
I'll try again tonight, I'm semi-restricted with what I can do from current site.
That's what it looks like. Qaddafi has been there 40 years and never harmed anybody. The real agitators though are also stirring up more trouble in Yemen, Syria, Saudia Arabia and they still want to bomb Iran..
Remember, "By Deception, Thou Shalt Make War" is how they operate.