Much like the golden opportunity that was missed by the Bush Administration to start a conversation with Iran, President Obama is missing out on a chance to make the U.S. look good in the Middle East.
Now, this isn’t an issue of saying hey lets go to war with Libya and its crazed mad hatter of a leader Muammar Qaddafi, but a minimal effort at best would bring the U.S. some good light in the region. Mid East relations have always been tense for us, and they haven’t been getting better with the unjustified Iraq War.
However when people are crying out to the international community for help much like this woman did, well than hey, maybe we should get involved instead of standing idly by.
I’m not saying a full scale invasion, but our special operations community has the tool and capabilities to arm a people, and help them much like the action taken in Afghanistan. We could have armed and trained and assisted the Libyan people into taking their country back.
Now we have implemented a no fly zone, but this seems too little too late. That woman’s plea for help was on February 25. The no fly zone was just implanted yesterday and Qaddaffi has more than pushed back the rebels from their hold on the country.
Our reaction should have been quicker instead of pussyfooting around and being worried about how we get looked at. Our chance to save lives and look like the good guys again has been missed out. I prefer democrats over republicans, but I have to say, when it comes to stuff like this at least Republicans get shit done. Of course that would only happen because they have a business interest in Libya.
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