You can forgive Obama's dithering when it comes to Libya when you consider the outcome of these Middle-East conflicts. In Somalia we were told that the people, after years of suffering in anarchy will open their arms to the U.S. and U.N. military. But once we were there, we were seen as the enemy. The people of Somalia chose their local warlords over a U.N. imposed democracy and all sides of the conflict attack the U.S. as being the enemy.

In Iraq we were told that the people would look at us as liberators if we would just get rid of Saddam Hussein. That the long suffering people of Iraq just wanted to live in a free democratic country. But once Saddam was deposed, we found ourselves in the middle of a civil war where all sides considered us the enemy. One of the favorite tactics used by the people we were there to "save" was to place their fighters among civilians to make sure there were lots of casualties. This is an effective tactic because no one seems to blame the group hiding among the civilians for putting them in harms way. No it is the evil United States who get blamed for any scratch on a civilian no matter how hard we try to avoid civilian casualties.

Afghanistan? The same thing, although their support of Osama bin Laden gives us a legitimate reason to be there, the results are the same. The Taliban hides among the civilians and actively attacks anyone supporting the U.S. and we get blamed for it. The people in the Middle-East are not timid people. They know better than the people in the West what war is all about. It is an ugly business where ugly things are done. And if you are not prepared to go all out and win; you will wind up in thiese half hearted piecemeal operations where the local opposition cannot force you out. But you do not have the political will to win. So you are in a long drawn out stalemate where the locals turn against you, the international community turns against you, and eventually your own people get tired of the fight and wonder why we ever got involved.

So where does that leave us? Here we are in Libya. A brutal thug is under attack by the people of Libya crying we want Democracy! That is the thing you say when you want Western (U.S.) muscle to eliminate your enemy for you. But we don't know who these people are. We don't know who will take power when the dust settles. What we do know is that both sides hate the U.S. We know that no matter how much or how little the U.S. participates in this conflict, the world will blame us for whatever happens. Heck, the world starting blaming the U.S. for not taking sides in the beginning.

So Obama did what good Liberals say we should do. He let the U.N. decide and they chose to go to war. And the minute we go to war? Why the Russians who did not stop the Security Council resolution says they are against it. China, who did not stop the resolution says they oppose it. The Arab league who begged the Western nations to intervene says that we better not hurt any civilians. So here we go again. Stuck in the middle of another civil war, in a country that has no strategic significance to the U.S. Trying to do the "right thing" for the people of the world. All this will do is throw more of our treasure away and give our enemies more fodder for attacking us.

It makes me wonder if there are not political powers in the world who are going around the globe and igniting these conflicts in order to keep us involved and slowly bleed our country of blood and money...

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