When’s the president going to tell us about Libya?

I’m just wondering here, why we haven’t had a speech from the president informing the American people about this Libya thing. I mean I’m in no hurry to have American Idol preempted during it’s every-friggen-night schedule, but I’m pretty sure that every other President talked to us when they committed our sons and daughters to an open-ended conflict overseas.

I guess he’s hoping the media lapdogs will do it for him. Eliot Engel (D-NY) talked to ABC News and told them that the president told him that we’d be “‘in and out’ very quickly”. It seems to me that “very quickly” has come and gone, well, in my mind. I think it was Fox News that was reporting that cruise missiles struck Libya this morning.

And, oh, by the way, the Chief of Naval Operations says those 162 cruise missiles that have been fired in this operation won’t be replaced, cause he says we have enough. Where have I heard that before?

But back to the president, apparently he’s talking to Spanish-speaking people who watch Univision and reassuring them that he won’t send troops into Libya. I guess he’s hoping that the Spanish-speaking audience didn’t read about the 2200 Marines headed to ships off the coast of Libya. You don’t point a Marine Expeditionary Unit at the shores of Tripoli without an intent to pull the trigger, usually.

The Persian Gulf nation of Qatar was expected to start flying air patrols over Libya by this weekend, becoming the first member of the Arab League to participate directly in the military mission. Obama and NATO had insisted from the start on Arab support.

So one rust-bucket training aircraft from Qatar is how the Arabs support the people of Libya. That’s stronger than their support of the people of Palestine, the people of Afghanistan, the people of Iran, the people of Iraq in the 90s, though.

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden