I’m confused about us going to war with Libya.  You say war, what war?  Well, firing a hundred plus missiles into another country is an act of war.  I am certain that the leaders of this country know this.

During the Cuban Missile Crises, we imposed a quarantine around Cuba and not a blockade, because a blockade constituted an act of war.  But that was 50 years ago.  Now, we just cut loose.

I have no use for Mommar Gaddafi.  I think he is a tyrant and a murderer, and if he were blown in to 1,000 pieces, I would be pleased.  I might even go as low at 200 pieces.

What I see in Libya is an internal uprising.  I see a revolution against Gaddafi.  I support it, but I don’t understand where we have the right to fire missiles into another sovereign, albeit tyrannical, nation.  The justification is that Gaddafi is slaughtering his own people.  When you have a revolution and internal forces attempt to overthrow their miserable leader, I would expect the miserable leader to fight back.  He obviously has and very successfully.  And those people he is slaughtering are the people who are trying to overthrow him (and most likely execute him).  None of this startles me.

It’s great to have missiles and air superiority.  But, if Gaddafi has superior forces on the ground, he will probably put down this internal revolt.

Did President Obama think these things through before he committed our nation?  What I am hearing is the US is only taking charge for a little while and then we will turn it over to NATO forces.  What does that mean?  Does that mean that we will bow out or just step back.  I suspect NATO will enforce a no-fly zone while Gaddafi forces wipe out the opposition.  I wish our President would have consulted with Congress before authorizing this act of war.

Bill O’Reilly says it’s OK to do it because Gaddafi ordered the bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.  Maybe we should indict him – Gaddafi that is.   But the Administration says it’s to keep him from slaughtering his own people – “innocent civilians” (who are trying to overthrow him).

At this time I was going to quote Colin Powell on only going to war when you have overwhelming power, understand the objectives and definitely have an end game to close out the matter.  In looking Powell up on the internet so that I could make sure I had the quote correct, I read that Powell supported Obama for President.  He thought Obama would provide fresh eyes to look at the issues. 

After reading that, I no longer concerned myself with getting the quote right.  I’ll bet Powell is feeling pretty stupid right now.


Written by PJ Rice on www.ricequips.com