Hillary Clinton has publicly acknowledged the scalding impact of Rwanda in 1994, when her husband’s administration didn’t act and hundreds of thousands died.
But that hasn’t stopped veteran US broadcast journalist Ted Koppel asking why Libya was singled out to win “the humanitarian defence sweepstakes of 2011” and not other countries?
Defence secretary Robert Gates acknowledges that the US doesn’t have a vital interest in the outcome in Libya. The candid Republican, who will be sorely missed when he decides to retire, also says no-one knows how long the Libyan intervention could go on for.
That’s bad news for a president anxious to extricate himself from Iraq and Afghanistan ahead of a re-election year. This Commander-in-Chief isn’t about to wrap himself up in the flag and sound the charge on Libya.
In fact NBC White House reporter Savannah Guthrie told her viewers that sources had heard the president label the military action in Libya a “turd sandwich” in a closed-door meeting.
Now that doesn’t fit with his icy-cool public demeanour.
Actually, I believe the phrase you’re looking for there at the end is “media-created icy-cool persona.”
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