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2011-04-03 Africa North

There's a clear logic behind Obama's Libya strategy

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Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-04-03 08:54|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Yeah sure. Because he is the smartest guy in the room? Because his goals are so lofty that we mortals really can't understand? Because he is the "ONE." So much hogwash. Obama does not have a strategy.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-04-03 11:06|| 2011-04-03 11:06|| Front Page Top

#2 For two centuries, Americans have believed that any use of military power is war, and the objective in war is victory over the enemy

Americans (at least sensible ones) have believed this for two centuries, but the idea go all the way back (at least) to Sun Tzu.

The problem is that Obama does not have any clear goals or strategy beyond feeling good about "doing something". This will not end well.

Posted by CincinnatusChili 2011-04-03 12:15|| 2011-04-03 12:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Just because you want something to be true doesn't, you know, make it fact.

That piece is a steaming pile.

Posted by Jefferson 2011-04-03 12:20|| 2011-04-03 12:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Anything but apologize.

Posted by gorb 2011-04-03 15:52|| 2011-04-03 15:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Six hundred years ago the 'intellectuals' were also desperately seeking to make the Ptolemaic model of the solar system work too. Sometimes you and your One are NOT the center of the universe, but if your dogma demands it, no amount of data/facts will alter that perception.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-04-03 16:16|| 2011-04-03 16:16|| Front Page Top

#6 ...the big league ballplayer, the toughest boxer. Americans play to win, all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell to a man who lost, and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost - and will never lose a war - because the very thought of losing is hateful, to Americans.

At least, in 1944. Paraphrasing G. C. Scott, as Patton.

Posted by Bobby 2011-04-03 16:43|| 2011-04-03 16:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Bobby, you might enjoy http://www.pattonhq.com/speech.html, probably the closest thing to the real speech.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-04-03 17:02|| 2011-04-03 17:02|| Front Page Top

#8 The strategy appears to be leave the Euros in the lurch and have the whole 'intervention' end in an embarassing failure.

Posted by phil_b 2011-04-03 20:44|| 2011-04-03 20:44|| Front Page Top

#9 The strategy appears to be leave the Euros in the lurch and have the whole 'intervention' end in an embarassing failure.

President Sarkozy has made it clear he despises President Obama, so therefore he should suffer, phil_b?

Posted by trailing wife 2011-04-03 23:14|| 2011-04-03 23:14|| Front Page Top

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