The fact that Obama's speech had to be moved up to 7:30 (from 8:00) so as not to force ABC to pre-empt Dancing with the Stars is a commentary about the attention span of the American people.
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Originally Posted by roachboy
in this case, i think the new republic piece from the head of human rights watch is pretty good. post 144...the main grounds aren't particular national interest. it's more preventing a massacre. humanitarian grounds. and the rest of the planet seems to find this acceptable as an action--within limits of course. go figure.
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I agree that the actions are more to prevent a massacre.
Unfortunately, our European allies, with perhaps the exception of the Brits, are all bark and no bite when it comes to committing military resources or, giving them the benefit of doubt, they just dont have an equivalent level of force capacity that could do the job quickly w/minimum loss of lives.
Should we have let Kadaffi follow through on his threat to massacre rebel forces and civilian supporters by the thousands (x 10 or x 100)?
One can only imagine the outrage on the right if we had not stepped up and Kadaffi did exactly what he threatened to do.