Libya: deja vu all over again!

The O administration is becoming more and more like the W administration every day. O's recent speech re why we are confronting Libya employs words and phrases almost identical to those of W when he explained why we were confronting Iraq. Plus the ambiguity. Will we take out Gadaffi or won't we? Will we put American boots on the ground or not? Will we lead the coalition directly or via NATO or not at all? Are we fighting for regime change or not?

Plus the secrecy. O entered Libya without consulting more than a handful of Congressmen. Congress, of course, is irate. Hillary's star is rising and O's is falling; but these short term polls are highly mercurial.

As noted earlier, I am not in favor of this engagement. It will end in tears (ours). It will resolve nothing as we are not even sure who the rebels are. I read that O just issued a secret order commanding a group of CIA spooks to go into Libya, mix with the rebels and find out who they are. Odd, I thought that our embassy in Tripoli would have had that type of intelligence long ago.

Nor do I favor arming the rebels, unless our generals are intent on having these very weapons used against us in future. As for the rebels being trained by the USA in the use of our ordinance, no way. Let them continue to expend their firepower in the air.

Yet, the debate over arming and training continues. One retired ultra right general commenting on Fox news touched upon something I too was concerned about. Namely, the seemingly random and pointless firing of ammunition by the rebels. He noted that almost every news image he had seen of the fighting in Libya featured rebels firing their weapons into the air. He observed rocket launchers being fired at random, without proper anchoring and without targeting objects. He also mentioned men in 'technicals' wildly firing machine guns into oblivion.

His point was twofold. First, we must arm the rebels and second, we must train the rebels how to use the ordinance we supply. According to the NY Times, Defense Secretary Gates agrees with me and does not want to arm the rebels. So does Hillary who as our leading hawk is now reportedly having doubts about our efforts “because of the unknowns” about who the rebels are.

Now you guys have Moussa Koussa and according to some media he is having a long chat with MI6 at some unknown location. Breaking news indicates Moussa will not be given amnesty and that he has 'electrifying' information about the Lockerbie incident. We are not told, of course, what this electrifying news is, as the reporter claims not to know, although the same reporter does know it is electrifying, or perhaps could possibly be electrifying.

This type of journalism is tantamount to a news presenter advising the audience that the latest terrorism warning will be issued after the commercial break.