Fuzzy by design

On Libya, TheArabist.net writer Steve Negus goes all John Stewart on Obama. Here's the speech he says the president should give tonight if he could be totally honest:

"We are there in support of a document produced by a committee, under time constraints, which is consequently rather fuzzily worded, authorizing vaguely-described actions to achieve some very generally defined goals. We are there to prevent a tragedy, the scale of which will remain unknown unless we allow it to happen. We will probably remain committed to some degree until a wide range of Libyan actors, most of whose identities and agendas we do not know, can reach a stable ceasefire agreement, the terms of which we only guess at."

Funny how satire can cut to the heart of the matter. Negus, a smart observer, actually thinks "this is a good mission" and Obama made the right call given the lousy hand he was dealt. It's worth a read.