President Barack Obama is a fraud. The Libyan war (which I support) is proof.
Obama never would have defeated Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries in 2008 had it not been for his opposition to the Iraq War. Anti-war sentiment gave his campaign passion, coherence, and legitimacy that Clinton could not muster.
Now Obama’s anti-war posture turns out to have been a “fairy tale,” as Bill Clinton put it (and for which he was derided as a racist).
Because he was never in a position to vote on it, Obama’s claim to have opposed the Iraq war rested on a speech he gave in the fall of 2002 at an anti-war rally in Chicago. (No full recording of the speech exists, so his campaign re-recorded it.) Obama said that while Saddam Hussein was “a bad guy,” he was no threat to the U.S. and could “be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history.”
The same could be said of Muammar Gaddafi today. The difference, Obama supporters might say, is that this president waited for authorization from the UN Security Council. He certainly did–wasting precious time, costing civilian lives, and complicating the task. And international support was in place for weeks before Obama finally came around–more to avoid blame for Gaddafi’s victory than to ensure his defeat.
True to form, Obama promptly decamped for Rio de Janiero, leaving the management of the war to more serious and presumably more capable hands. He is as insincere in his commitment to war as he was in his opposition to it.
He wants to let the rest of the world lead–but the “world,” as such, can only achieve what China and Russia decline to veto. Obama has abandoned our foreign policy to the control of our former, and future, rivals.
It’s not war that Obama is against; it’s American leadership in the fight to defend liberty from terrorism and the regimes that support it.
Hillary Clinton and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) would also have gone to war in Libya. But McCain, at least, would not have spent two years apologizing for America, and would not have confused tactics with strategy, or speeches with leadership.
So support our troops, wholeheartedly!–even as we debate the mission, appropriately–but regret our President, deeply.
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