The King is keeping his marbles

DESPITE pressing our faces against the White House windows, it is true that we cannot discern all the details of President Obama’s Libya strategy. To his detractors, the absence of detail means an absence of plans. Inside their DC salons, they whine about Obama not sharing his marbles and toss about allegations of “folly” and “unfocused strategy” like so many parlor tricks. Because Hillary supposedly said “let them eat cake” if Congress opposed the war in the future, some crowned Obama “King Barack I.” But the media sages (especially the blogospheric kind) who pretend to know it all actually know little. It now appears Qaddafi is feeling the heat from the burners of Obama’s “Gas Stove Gambit.” The Qaddafi sons (and sundry defecting apparatchiks) are now in London trying to cut a deal to save Daddy. The brothers have proposed that if one of them were allowed to head a transitional government, they’d promise the Qaddafi departure and a new Arab Spring for Libya, including elections. The trouble is the math. One Qaddafi son (doesn’t matter who) minus Col. Qaddafi still equals Qaddafi. Ergo, no one is  buying the arithmetic as chalked on the blackboard so far. But the chess game for resolving the conflict is afoot. The DC parlor tricksters should at least acknowledge it, and get over the fact that “All the King’s Men” does not include them. And it seems His Majesty King Barack I of Honolulu-shire is intent on keeping his royal marbles to himself (for now).