a) we don't have oil interests in africa
b)sometimes it is..
it's glib to say 'it's for oil' but we do get a some oil of it from Libya.. and in Africa, I just don't see any way to end it even with our intrusion..
I'm sure Obama and the rest would have been happy to let it all play out on it's own like it has everywhere else in the Mid-east where the people are rising up.. but this time Ghadaffi threatened to kill everyone in sight and the mid-east leaders believed him and asked for our assistance..
there was no good response..
think about it... Obama is literally damned with either choice he makes... Don't get involved and watch 1000's and maybe even 10's of 1000's slaughtered ... for which he would be supremely vilified for and blamed
or
do what can minimally be done and get blamed for using the US military here instead of there..
I can only assume he made the choice that would let him sleep at night.
this is why he was elected.. to make these choices. He made it, it's working out OK so far.. let's see how it eventually plays out.
what choice would you have made?
Everything you say is true and makes sense. I guess I don't agree with the ends justifying the means. I know there are always exceptions to rules but the use of the military seems to have become an untouchable by congress or an after thought. Within the present framework I suppose I would have done what he did but who is the enemy and who is the ally in that situation...Or is going to be another Afghanistan where we just stay and maintain bases and talk about security?
