James Fallows has a great post up concerning Libya-and how Obama has no one to blame but himself for his troubles with Congress:
This was a problem foreseeable from the very start* — more than three months ago, when we were told that this would be a campaign of “days, not weeks.” Obama has so often proven himself to be the master of the long game that it is genuinely puzzling that he has stuck with this approach, rather than roping in Congress back in the days when most Republicans were criticizing him for taking too long to intervene.
Usually when his administration suffers a reverse, I blame the vicious nihilism of the opposition, or assume he has chosen the least bad of the dire options available. In this case, I cannot understand why he made and persists in what looks like a foolish mistake. Not the intervention itself, though I was skeptical of it. Rather, the refusal to engage Congress, which now leads to a predictable backlash.
And now-what do we get for our trouble? Not a damn thing.
Your not looking at the bigger picture; oil prices are up, and the oil companies are making more money – in a weak market. The whole Libya fiasco has been a great success. Conspiracy theory – I think not. Never underestimate what people will do for money.
Thor, that was the blame line that was used on “Dubya”. Libya produces just 2 percent of the world’s oil (1.5 million barrels per day), most of which goes to Europe.
WTI oil is down from $115 in April to about $92 now.
BHO is not a master of anything, he is the puppet of the master.
So who is the master? And if you say George Soros-I will have to kill you.
He’s only a financier.
I thought Jon Stewart and the Galatian overlords were the Masters?
By the way RIP Peter Falk….I understand that Columbo was quite a hit in Japan?