{"id":22738,"date":"2011-03-29T08:29:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T12:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22738"},"modified":"2011-03-29T08:32:27","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T12:32:27","slug":"to-be-blunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22738","title":{"rendered":"To be blunt…."},"content":{"rendered":"

Yeah, I knew that the President couldn’t make a speech last night that didn’t include a reference to the war in Iraq. And the Washington Post<\/a> couldn’t mention his speech without a reference to his peace prize.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be blunt, we went down that road in Iraq,\u201d Obama said, referring to the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that was done without United Nations approval. \u201cRegime change there took eight years, thousands of American and Iraqi lives, and nearly $1 trillion. That is not something we can afford to repeat in Libya.\u201d<\/p>\n

Obama has sought to link American values with his foreign policy priorities throughout his presidency, and the arguments he laid out in his address Monday echoed those he made on \u201cjust war\u201d when he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in December 2009.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To be blunt, Obama doesn’t have to deal with Global Exchange shipping human shields to Libya. I don’t see any Congressmen standing on the roof of Gaddafi’s palaces telling the American viewing public how Gaddafi is more trustworthy than Obama. There’s no one accusing Obama of rushing to war. No one is taking at face value reports of Libyan civilian deaths, or mis-aimed bombs. Code Pink is “standing with” the Libyan people like they never did with the Iraqi people. No one is calling the three-nation coalition “anemic”. No one is complaining about Joe Biden being on vacation in Aspen<\/a>, while the troops fight the war. No one is complaining about the president’s golf while the troops are engaged in Libya.<\/p>\n

The public opinion deck, for some reason, isn’t stacked against the military action. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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