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For a cogent summation of the absurdities of the Obama presidency, look no further than his 2009 Noble peace prize followed-up by a military joy ride in Libya. Bet team Noble regrets their little act of political correctness like a large number of Americans regret their own voting error.
The best social manipulators deceive themselves first. So it is with our President’s denial that his Libya adventure is an act of war. Calling this ill advised escapade “limited military operations, not hostilities,” is like having Al-Qaeda label 9-11 as an exercise in religious and cultural exchange.
While Obama is bombing the bad guys, arming the good guys, and funding the NATO guys, the Pentagon is taking the position that hacking our computers is an act of war. They’re right. Obama’s matching response to hacking our sensibilities isn’t.
Mahmar Kaddafi is a nasty guy. A religious zealot with a propensity for botox and blonds, he’d make a great target for the next Rambo movie. He should not be a target for overreaction by the home of the free and land of the brave.
Fifty years ago Dwight Eisenhower raised concerns about the power and expense of what he termed, “America’s military industrial complex.” His cautions on confusing armed forces enterprise with a strong defense echo today. We live in a time where a bankrupt America is carrying one half of the world’s military expenditures. Expanding a ground war amidst the corruptions of Afghanistan and then adding a third military entanglement with Libya is folly even for a visionary Nobel laureate.
Obama took action supposedly to protect the civilian population. If that’s the case, why aren’t we bombing Kaddafi and the insurgents? By what authority are we supporting rebels combatively resisting his authority?
The 1973 War Powers Act requires a President to obtain Congressional approval within 90 days of military response to an external threat – period. That Obama has thus definitively betrayed his oath of office and violated the law seems to have escaped the conscience of his mascots. If Bill Clinton was impeached for dropping his pants, Barack Obama should certainly be impeached for dropping bombs on a sovereign country presenting no meaningful dangers to our own.
Try starting an armed rebellion in America. Just like in Libya, tanks and heads would roll. Obama is attacking the Kaddafi regime for doing precisely what he would do under the same circumstance…
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