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Weak and Weaker
RtWngExtrmst
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Obams's feckless and reckless handling of Libia
Some excerps from the article.
The bravado of the British in acting to rescue its citizens from a madman's mayhem stands in such stark contrast to the inept and weak-kneed response of the United States to the Libyan crisis that is raises these questions: What good is the world's greatest military machine if our leaders won't use it? And why pretend to be a world leader if we won't act like one?
After days of silence, Obama finally went on television to deplore the violence and to promise that his beloved "international community" would begin debating responses, but he timidly would not even name the source of that violence -- Col. Gaddafi. The President's rhetoric tiptoed along a tightrope stretched between restraint and gutless appeasement, as if not offending a terrorist murderer was his first priority.
It was left to the British to give us a lesson in bold action. Under Obama's leadership, America has become expert at apologizing, temporizing and speaking in mealy-mouthed, multicultural ambivalence, while remaining unwilling to act boldly or speak clearly as if it were still a leader of the free world.
The Article
http://spectator.org/archives/2011/02/27/ferry-diplomacy
Some excerps from the article.
The bravado of the British in acting to rescue its citizens from a madman's mayhem stands in such stark contrast to the inept and weak-kneed response of the United States to the Libyan crisis that is raises these questions: What good is the world's greatest military machine if our leaders won't use it? And why pretend to be a world leader if we won't act like one?
After days of silence, Obama finally went on television to deplore the violence and to promise that his beloved "international community" would begin debating responses, but he timidly would not even name the source of that violence -- Col. Gaddafi. The President's rhetoric tiptoed along a tightrope stretched between restraint and gutless appeasement, as if not offending a terrorist murderer was his first priority.
It was left to the British to give us a lesson in bold action. Under Obama's leadership, America has become expert at apologizing, temporizing and speaking in mealy-mouthed, multicultural ambivalence, while remaining unwilling to act boldly or speak clearly as if it were still a leader of the free world.
The Article
http://spectator.org/archives/2011/02/27/ferry-diplomacy