You don’t just walk up to the local bully and slap him across the face. If you are determined to confront him, then you try to knock the living daylights out of him. Otherwise, you are better off leaving him alone.
Anyone who grew up in my old neighborhood in Harlem could have told you that. But Barack Obama didn’t grow up in my old neighborhood. He had a much more genteel upbringing, including a fancy private school, in Hawaii.
Which is odd thinking, considering the President so famously said "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun."
Of course, that was 2008. And that was referring to Republicans. You know, dangerous enemies. Khaddafi is, at heart, just one of those friends on the international scene we haven't made yet because George W. Bush alienated them by bombing Moslem countries and putting jihadi poets in Guantanamo Bay. So the idea that we should use more violence than the Libyan loyalists use in order to defeat them just doesn't occur to him, apparently.
We're at war now. President Obama didn't intend it to be that way when he started the bombing. And he is still acting like we can be a little bit pregnant on the whole fighting issue. But in short order he'll have to choose between defeat in a war he won't admit we are in and outgunning the Khaddafi loyalists who are most assuredly at war for their very lives, and winning this war. Sadly, I don't know what "winning" means to our president.
I've come to the conclusion that we need to send in the Marines, now, to end the suspense of trying to win a war without waging a war; and try to win the war we are in before it is too late. It isn't something I planned to support when the crisis began. But we are at war now, and the alternative to winning is losing.
I choose to support victory. Let's get the SOB. Carthago Delenda Est.
