Great news: more than half of the registered voters in a Quinnipiac University poll have said that Obama does not deserve a second term. Let’s examine why this is…
My bet, just like the article states, is that the people are dissatisfied with Obama’s position on Libya and a lack of a clear-cut foreign policy; therefore, the poll numbers are a bit reactionary. Strangely, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has a 66% approval rating. Now, one of two things can be true: 1) Obama is not really in control and has gotten himself in over his head, or 2) Hillary has actually been doing a good job. I am going to say it is probably number 1 but that is more of a question for those of you who are reading this. As a side-note, there have been rumors that Hillary might step down even if Obama wins re-election and if that is the case, Obama will be hurting even more with his foreign policy.
According to Rasmussen, 21% of the people polled believe that the United States does not have a clearly defined plan in Libya. My response to that is: obviously. To all of my liberal friends and those who support Obama I have a question for all of you: didn’t you criticize Bush for the same un-clear plan in Iraq and Afghanistan? Let me get this straight, those of you that support Obama’s “mission” in Libya did not support Bush’s mission in Iraq and Afghanistan? I can understand your point on Afghanistan but then again, Obama increased the amount of troops there. As for Iraq, didn’t Iraq have a brutal dictator who was suppressing his people? Technically, Libya is the same thing even though Iraq did not have the brutal protests like Libya does. I guess the point that I am trying to make is: it wasn’t okay for Bush but it is okay for Obama based on your logic. Seems a bit hypocritical for those of you who were against the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions.
I have no suggestion that anyone would like to hear. However, my opinion is that we should retrench a little bit. I think we should let the French and the Arab nations that are upset with Libya take care of the problem by themselves. However, Obama has sent CIA operatives to Libya to spy on the rebels. The United States has bigger fish to fry right now like the economy but I guess Obama really is not worried about that. (As this is not an economic post, you should check out this article anyways because it is big news.) If anyone has a better suggestion that retrenching or sending the CIA to spy on rebels, please call up the White House.
Actually I supported Bush's decision to go to Afghanistan (although I was 12 at the time). But if what happened then happened now, I'd still support it. The world's most wanted man was residing in the safe haven of Afghanistan. Going in there was the right thing to do to try and find him, it was in our nations best interest. Now we've taken on a different cause in Afghanistan as Al-Qaeda has now set up shop in Pakistan and Bin Laden is nowhere to be found. The cause we've taken on in Afghanistan is not the same cause we took on when we went there 9 years ago
ReplyDeleteNow the difference between Libya and Iraq. If you listened to Obama's speech, it's actually quite clear. Here is what I've got. 1st, we're following a UN resolution (1973), so we're more or less participating in the global scheme of things, while the Iraq war had no such resolution from the UN. Next, we're NOT leading this effort. We're more or less providing support via missiles and our unique expertise. France and other nations have opted to involve themselves more in this conflict and I say go the fuck ahead. we're broke, you guys can fight them. Lastly, we will no longer be involved of this conflict as of today (i believe?) We actually handed over control of the no-fly zone to NATO, so other than a few CIA operatives, we're not involved in this conflict anymore. The fact that we have CIA operatives in Libya doesn't worry me. We have/had intelligence operatives in many countries in various wars/conflicts for various reasons. You can also look back at recent history and see that we've involved ourselves in numerous small conflicts, accomplished our goal, and gotten out of there without involving ourselves further...such as Grenada, Panama, Nicaragua, and Liberia. Not every war has to become a quagmire. As Obama said, we don't want to repeat the mistakes we made in Iraq.
I really hope we don't send arms to them. That would be a colossal mistake. Every time we've given the rebels arms, we've gotten burned (in the words of senator Feinstein). Afghanistan during the 1980's... now the taliban are using our weapons to fight against us today. The most we should do is provide a little knowledge to the rebels on how to fight a war because they don't know how. I personally think they should take a page out of the israeli book because those guys know how to fight a fucking war.