The president is breaking his silence on Libya, speaking out on Gaddafi’s massacre of his own people for the first time since it began. And he is speaking forcefully. Apparently, the president remained silent as long as he did in order to get Americans who were in the country, out. That was a reasonable call — Gaddafi already has a long history of killing innocent Americans, and the possibility of him seizing Americans inside Libya to use as human shields did exist.
Update: Obama’s remarks ended after a couple of minutes, and he took no questions. He strongly condemned the violence, and said his administration is examining the “full range of options” to respond to the Gaddafi regime’s violence. But as Glenn Beck just noted, Obama never mentioned Gaddafi by name. Gaddafi is, of course, the author of the violence. Why not name him as such?
Well, he said it.
The only thing we know for sure is that it is some kind of a lie.
We’ll find out later what the con is.
As usual, President Obama mistakes considering the full range of options for taking action.
Thinking about doing something is not the same as actually doing something.
The full range of options… from “nothing” to “active groveling.”
hello. we had the putz here on American soil when we knew he kills innocent peoples, including Americans. this is Democratic leadership. when our government does go bankrupt, will there be a fast lane to government foreclosure sales? vote all incumbents out, starting with the President.
Impeach Obama, and the others may be unnecessary. Well, maybe his main henchpersons too. And what are we waiting for? What a glorious Christmas present that would be.
Violence is unacceptable, Gaddafi is unacceptable.
So? Is anyone out there still listening to what the Joker-in-Chief say?
When the Cowboy-in-Chief bombed Saddam to smithereens, Gaddafi surrendered his WMD. The Joker can say anything, but who cares?
After hearing Buraq’s speech, and hearing that the ferry that we hired to evacuate the embassy staff and hundreds to thousands of American nationals who were ordered to get out; I started looking for what forces we have available. If what I found is true, our entire current force in the Mediterranean consists of one (1) destroyer. I knew that we sent a carrier [ENTERPRISE] through Suez a week or so ago, but we usually are rotating ships around and have at least one CVBG either in the Med or close enough to get there in a hurry. Both of our CVBG’s in the area are in the Arabian Sea now.
We do not have a single MEU in the area, the KEARSARGE group being near Bahrain. Let alone an MEF. The nearest MEU is the 22nd which is working up for deployment near Camp Lejeune. I do not know where it is in the working up cycle, but they are 15 days steaming from the Gulf of Sidra if they leave today. The TRUMAN CVN-75 is just back in Norfolk after squadron quals, but transferred her munitions to CVN-76 GEORGE H.W. BUSH which is just starting work up for her first deployment.
We do not have any options at all to project naval or marine power in the Med right now; be it rescue or dealing with the Iranian targets in the Med. None. The entire southern rim of the Med has been in an uproar for several weeks. It is not like a crisis here is a surprise. Our Navy is used to being on standby for such, and usually would have a force within a reasonable steaming distance leaning forward in case they were needed.
Someone had to order deployments to leave us in this situation. I do not think it was anyone in a Navy uniform. I am blaming the National Command Authority. Any bloodshed or hostages are on his head.
Subotai Bahadur
Hey Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter, Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and the rest of this nation’s arrogant young Republican Chicken Hawks… Go enlist in the army and get your worthless asses over to Lybia. You and GOP chickenhawks like yourself are part of what has been killing this nation’s enlisted youth as well as innocent people in other nations since Bush and his band of Neocon’s hijacked the Republican Party. The country would be far better off without you and your kind as this nation might then be able to get back to true conservatism.
That is spelled Libya.