@Wally Ballou – either Obama’s election rhetoric was nothing but snake oil, or after looking at all the options he has come to similar conclusions as Bush in dealing with Gitmo, Afghanistan, etc.

Obama is saying over and over again that we will not be putting boots on the ground, but it wouldn’t surprise me at all to find out that we’ve got Special Forces teams in country. In fact I’d almost put money down. We know for a fact that the British SAS are in country since one of their teams made the mistake of getting caught.
(http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/06/3156387.htm)
It would actually surprise me more to find out we don’t have some covert operatives inside Libya, than to find out we do.

I’m with emmdeeaych on this one. Obama’s damned if he does, and damned if he doesn’t. Gaddafi’s a thuggish egomaniacal dictator who needs to go. It’s too bad the Rebels there can’t pull it off without foreign assistance like the Egyptians did. I’m glad to see us making some attempt to assist them in their efforts. Unfortunately in this case, the rebels seem to be losing their momentum and Gaddafi’s forces are a lot more motivated than anyone seem to expect, so this is turning ugly fast.
With that said, I do see the hypocrisy in the fact that most of the nations involved in the efforts to topple Gaddafi, have at one time or another in the past been in bed with the bastard.

This is another example of my government trying to solve a problem I wish didn’;t exist. But does. There is no right answer, but there is a right direction, and i think this is in the right direction, at least.

If anything positive comes out of the Republicans’ knee-jerk opposition to anything Obama does maybe it will be that Congress finally reasserts its authority in bringing the country to war.

The very profitable military-industrial complex has all that authority. No one can stand in their way and why would any good brainwashed person do that anyway?