President Obama’s decision to bomb Libya is not even so multilateral as President George W. Bush’s decision to attack Iraq. Nor is it ultimately driven by humanitarian concerns – and certainly not by any vital U.S. national interest.
Despite Obama’s vilification of Bush for his alleged unilateralism, “Obama’s ‘coalition of the willing,’” according to foreign policy reporter Josh Rogin, “is smaller than any major multilateral operation since the end of the Cold War.” Obama’s Libyan intervention is more unilateral than Dubya’s in another respect, as well: Obama has brazenly refused even to consult Congress, much less seek its blessing.
As I argued in my most recent column, this is just the foreign policy outworking of Obama’s campaign to fundamentally transform America. Notice the common thread. He is using domestic policies to effectuate “economic justice” at home, trying to cut “wealthy” Americans down to size. Now he is usingforeign policy to diminish America’s role and stature in the international community to cut wealthy, imperialistic America down to size.
I don’t want to get bogged down here in a discussion of whether his motive is thus to sabotage America. In my view, that’s the effect of his policies, but I suppose that in his view, America will be a better nation if it uses government coercion to come closer to equalizing everyone’s share of the pie – even if it results in the pie’s shrinking – and if America operates less in its own self-interest in foreign affairs. It’s a bizarre mindset and one that most Americans probably don’t understand – so bizarre that they don’t believe it despite the proof in front of their faces.
Think about it. Obama’s secretary of defense, Robert Gates, admitted on national television Sunday that Libya poses no actual or imminent threat to the United States and that it is not a vital national-security interest. This was no gaffe. Surely, Obama’s team is not so incompetent and undisciplined that it didn’t anticipate this question and carefully prepare the answer.
For the rest of this story, go to: The method to O’s madness
Source: wnd.com