If this were fiction, nobody would believe it: a politician with very little experience gets elected President by lambasting the policies of the incumbent, and then adopts all of those policies. Close Gitmo! Pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan! Um, never mind. Instead, let’s keep Gitmo open and attack another country!
The decision to attack Libya might turn out to be the right call, it certainly saved the rebels from being wiped out, although it does appear oil considerations came into play, according to Ed Markey. My issue is with the hypocrisy of the left, to spend huge amounts of effort criticizing decisions made by President Bush, and then turning around and saying “actually, we are going to do what he did”.
And it is not just one man, Obama, who is being hypocritical. Where are the war protesters? Where is the unending drum-beat of anti-war commentary from the main stream media? President Bush got Congressional approval for Afghanistan and Iraq, President Obama just made the decision and started bombing. And what of the Europeans? So adamant for the US to not interfere with an Iraqi dictator, so quick to encourage the US to interfere with a Libyan dictator, on whose oil they depend, now leading the US around by the nose. If this were a movie, nobody would believe the underlying premise that US voters would elect such a clown for their President. But they did.
President Carter’s second term indeed.
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