![]() Obama is hypersensitive to the Vietnam analogy - arguing, for example, as he authorized a US “surge” in Afghanistan in 2009 that it is not another Vietnam. He may also resume his quest for nuclear weapons - and this time we’ll have no hope of negotiating him out of it as we did in 2003-04. If he keeps power over any significant part of Libya, he’ll likely return to international terrorism, as he has already threatened. Khadafy won’t care that he’s being bombed for “humanitarian” rather than “regime change” reasons it is absolutely certain that, once able, he’ll retaliate against those doing his forces mortal harm. By demanding Moammar Khadafy’s ouster while restricting US military force to the more limited objective of protecting innocent civilians, President Obama has set himself up for massive strategic failure. Our Nobel Peace Prize-winning president has gotten things badly wrong. Today, our real risk of “quagmire” is Libya. Opponents of the Vietnam War - that seemingly endless, inconclusive, increasingly unpopular and ever-more-deadly and costly conflict - called it a “quagmire.” They said it was unwinnable and should never have been fought - and that America must avoid similar future wars.
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