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"For President Obama, the image of a bloodied Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi offers vindication, however harrowing, of his intervention in Libya, where a reluctant commander in chief put strict limits on American military engagement and let NATO allies take the lead in backing the rebels.
Mr. Obama’s carefully calibrated response infuriated critics on the right and left, who blamed him either for ceding American leadership in a foreign conflict or for blundering into another Arab land without an exit strategy.
But with Colonel Qaddafi joining the lengthening list of tyrants and terrorists dispatched during the Obama presidency, even critics conceded a success for Mr. Obama’s approach to war — one that relies on collective, rather than unilateral, action; on surgical strikes rather than massive troop deployments.
"I think the administration deserves great credit," Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, said in an interview on CNN. "Obviously, I had different ideas on the tactical side, but the world is a better place."
mr obama methods are classic mideastern. apologize publicly to your enemies and praise them. then at night send assassins.
Would have been great if they took him to prison once he was taken alive. Those Obama supported were screaming Allah Akbar and then assassinated the target.
Would have been great if they took him to prison once he was taken alive. Those Obama supported were screaming Allah Akbar and then assassinated the target.
I don't see anyone crying over this tyrants demise. It was the Libyan people that decided his fate.
I don't see anyone crying over this tyrants demise. It was the Libyan people that decided his fate.
I wouldn't have minded if the drone outright killed him, but when taken alive they assasinated him.
Obama supported that action later and that IMO just put Obama and all the ex Presidents at a much higher risk for assasination attempts than they were at before.
I wouldn't have minded if the drone outright killed him, but when taken alive they assasinated him.
Obama supported that action later and that IMO just put Obama and all the ex Presidents at a much higher risk for assasination attempts than they were at before.
What? Obama supported the Libyan resistance. If they decided to kill the man that terrorized them for decades, then so be it.
I'm glad the American Preisdent isn't withdrawing support out of an irrational fear of assasination. Seriously, that's a bizarre way to think.
Even conservative Andrew Sullivan gives our president the credit so many here refuse to give (and he also speaks the truth):
“To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he’d be on Mount Rushmore by now,” Sullivan said,
It's an election year and his supporters are scared schitless. Did you expect there to be a chorus of criticism of the President? Of course not....he needs all the help he can get in 2012. NOTHING negative will shoot from the mouths of those who are desperate to see him re-elected.
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