Warning, the following is an opinion piece so I'm not linking to a lot of things, so research at your own peril.
Today, the United Nations (an oxymoron worthy of enshrinement in the comedy hall of fame) today passed a resolution endorsing a no-fly zone in Libya. Let's ignore for a second whether or not such an action should have been taken. It comes weeks after Libyan rebels have pled for help. It comes at a time when Kaddafy Duck is on the verge of crushing the rebellion. It comes after President Obama felt he needed to invade a golf course and the NCAA brackets before taking any stance stronger than "jeez, I really don't think he should be killing his own people". It comes after France recognized the rebels as a legitimate government, then did nothing. The United States was sitting around waiting for the rest of the world to tell it what to do, saying it wouldn't move before there was an international consensus.
There's a certain irony that our President, who has thrown off the Constitution to ignore the legislature in favor of the executive, would cede power to the international community to declare war. Make no mistake, that is what a no-fly zone is. Robert Gates recently testified to this same thing. So now we'll have three unconstitutional wars going only the latest is being conducted by a man without testes. Maybe if it were a labor union in trouble he'd take a sort of half assed stance.
I hate the idea that Donald Trump is looking good in polls for the Republican nomination for 2012, but he's right, Obama has turned this country into an international joke.
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