- Joined
- Sep 13, 2007
- Messages
- 79,903
- Reaction score
- 20,981
- Location
- I love your hate.
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Libertarian
Because in his 2009 remarks Obama laid down the predicate that it was appropriate for America to act militarily in concert with other nations on humanitarian grounds. With that the foundation was established almost precisely for what followed this month with the U.N. Security Council sanctioned military intervention in Libya on humanitarian grounds by a broad coalition including America but also the Arab League and many European nations. You call that “killing Libyans” but of course there is a little doubt that far more Libyan civilians would have perished if the coalition had failed to intervene when it did. To borrow a line from a former president:
“We got there just in time.” — Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation on Events in Lebanon and Grenada, October 27, 1983
I guess "no blood for oil" is no longer in vogue for the left. :ssst: