Thomas Sowell distils Obama's Libya policy of doing-just-enough-not-to-succeed-but-to-appear-to-be-doing-enough-to-satisfy-the-liberal-press -- and, by implication, the cover-your-ass-who-cares-about-national-interests foreign policy of liberals generally -- into a perfect metaphor here:
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.
Ouch. Will anybody in the mainstream press start noticing that Obama in his first term will likely permit Iran to go nuclear, watch Afghanistan turn into a mini-Pakistan with a resurgent Taliban, watch and even help Egypt go Islamist while undermining a long-time ally in Mubarek, and, now, will suffer what can only be seen as a huge defeat for American prestige if Qaddafi remains in power in Libya? Will anybody start noticing that the Commander-in-Chief has no clothes?
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