You're Making it WORSE!

President Obama said this weekend the goal in Libya is to stop the violence. In case anyone missed it, we are engaging in violence and blowing [deleted] up over there. Then, when the current holder of power has his power to quell violence reduced, the rebel fighters are encouraged to continue fighting, and even fight harder! We, through our direct action, not only are doing the opposite of what he says we want to do, we are encouraging others to do what we say we don't want to have happen.

Okay, so Secretary Clinton said we have a secondary goal of getting Qaddafi out of power. Others (with actual military experience) disagree, but there's a goal we actually will trend toward with the current action. No comment on the similarities between her husband's attacking Kosovo and Obama attacking Libya, or the company we keep and the parties we support . . . here is something we can DO! Sic semper tyrannis! Throw the bum out!

Oh, and by the way, Mister President: way to play your hand close to the chest. He sent a letter to Congress (from his vacation in Chile) saying he wouldn't send US ground troops to Libya. So not only Qaddafi but his domestic enemies know they need only fear the Great Satan's air power. Further encouragement to continue fighting.

You may guess how surprised and pleased I am with this, but I'll give you a hint: it rhymes with and has the same number of letters as "rot fleased."

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Update (the idea for this post came to me during the morning commute) later in the day: somebody told the teleprompter writers the President was off-topic and now it is "the Policy of the United States" that we want Qaddafi out of power. To be replaced by _______?

This is so none of ours, or even NATO's business.