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Gadhafi has the blood of many Americans on his hands and the Obama administration is using an approach similar to that utilized by 41, not 43. Cool Barry will handle this better than the Crawford, TX village idiot did in Iraq.



Yeah, I was watching CNN last night. Apparently all Obama's hullabaloo that confused everybody about how tough he was being was based on how he's going to sanction Libya after the military force. But, he hasn't even gotten international support for it yet. It's not like Ghaddafi's going to care if we tell them we're not buying their oil. All he'll do is sell it to China. China might get a better deal, but Ghaddafi will still live like a king.

Now that Obama's defined the mission, I don't even have a problem with it. At least there's no obvious problems my amateur eyes can see.

But fuck did he mess up the public message. After the Arab League asked us to intervene, Obama had them going nuts about what the hell he was doing: Click

I don't know that the public message being so fucked up necessarily fucked up the effort itself. I just hope the private negotiations weren't fucked up that bad. Because for being a dictator, Ghaddafi was doing everything else we wanted. After the Iraq invasion, he completed opened up his country to inspections for WMD. Unlike Saddam who was doing everything we didn't want, e.g., defying UN sanctions, invading neighboring countries till we castrated him..

Ghaddafi was the role model for the other dictators that we wanted. If it was possible to save him as an ally we should have. Just how Obama handled the public message, if he fucked up the private negotiations that badly..