Friday, March 18, 2011

Chess, Checkers and Libya – Cont’d

Well, Andrew Sullivan’s e-mail inbox is filling up with dissents:

One reader:
”You should be applauding the way Barack Obama is handling the Libya situation. It is realpolitik in a most self-aware, calculating, interest-driven, human rights driven, cold-blooded form. It's something you claim to want in our foreign policy.”
Another reader:
“Obama has managed to get something his predecessors could not: UN support for what could be a major multilateral intervention led by states other than the U.S. Doesn't this remind you in some ways of how he handled healthcare, and succeeded where his predecessors had failed, to do something of real significance through patience, reserve, and a commitment to process? Like the health-care bill, this no-fly zone may very well have many things wrong with it. But Obama has proved me wrong so many times before, that I'm going to wait a bit before turning against this too fast, even though I'm skeptical.”
Heh. It ain’t just me, folks. And good luck trying to figure out Barack Obama. But the dude is wily, isn’t he?

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