In 2009, while attending the European summit of the Group of 20 major economic countries, President Obama was asked if he believed in American exceptionalism. He blithely responded, “I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.”
Fast forward to this address on Libya yesterday:
“For generations, the United States of America has played a unique role as an anchor of global security and as an advocate for human freedom. Mindful of the risks and costs of military action, we are naturally reluctant to use force to solve the world’s many challenges. But when our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.” (1 min. 29 secs)
Now it sounds as though Obama is embracing that exceptionalism he was never previously able to detect in attempting to make his case for U.S. involvement in Libya.
The tough reality is that Obama holds America in disdain. His intent is to bring this nation to its knees. His first inroad is breaking us economically and implementing government intervention in every aspect of our lives.
Watch it, AJ. Soon you’ll be tagged with one of the newly crafted derogatory labels such as “birther” or “nativist,” which are intended to marginalize anyone who thinks independently and isn’t in lockstep with the left.
The load of BS from “You Lie!” is enormous. Anybody with even half a brain knows the “why” of Libya – IT’s THE OIL, STUPID!
THE CASE FOR LIBYA:
“France wants Libya strikes run by new ‘committee’ ”
“France takes lead on ousting Qaddafi, U.S. wavers on ultimate goal”
“Europe, not US, pushed for military force in Libya”
“U.S. in compliance with U.N. resolution, will cede lead soon”
Follow the CRUDE:
France gets MORE THAN 10% of its oil from Libya.
Germany gets an even higher percentage from Libya.
Many of the oil facilities are owned by Italian firms (Libya was a colony of Italy).
The US gets a negligibly small amount from Libya, but just needs to payback europe for supporting US interests in Iraq oil — THAT’S WHY THE US MISSION IS LIMITED.
And the UK wants to kill gadhafi to make sure he never tells the full story of their BP-Libya oil deal for the release of the Lockerbie bomber.
It’s ALWAYS about the oil.
For the clueless who are still wondering whether the “Coalition of the Unwilling” (aka, the “Keystone Kops Against Gadhafi”) will ALSO “protect civilians” in places like Syria and Yemen, here’s the bottom line:
NO OIL = NOBODY CARES.
Now he talks about American exceptionalism because he is arming Al-Queda with our superior weapons. This is still an illegal war – Congress never approved. Once again – Obama doesn’t give a damn about our Constitution and We are suffering for it.
Ok- you’re clearly not biased against the Left at ALL. Really Obama should be focused on uniting Left and Right to one common agenda. While we debate and nitpick everything the Left does in order to stop them from accomplishing anything just as they did when Bush was in office nothing is actually accomplished. Also to teapartypatiot- not everything is about oil, I know this is a long shot but is it possible that the Libyan conflict is exactly what it looks like- an intervention to stop a brutal dictatorship in the middle east?
…uuuhhh…no. That’s like saying the States War was about slavery.
We debate & nitpik the left BECAUSE THEY TREAT THE U.S. CONSTITUTION LIKE A PIECE OF TOILET PAPER!!!
This is abso-freakin-lutely about OIL.
& the muslim squatter has violated the Constitution…AGAIN!!!
OK, so what do we do with all the Muslims?
Genocide is usually frowned upon, and fining and jailing them for their religious beliefs is SLIGHTLY hypocritical; I agree with Doc when he says that the GOVERNMENT(Left and Right)abuse the Constitution- but back to Libya. If Obama hadn’t gotten involved in Libya we’d be criticizing him for Not getting involved. The question I ask you all is… why do we care if Europe gets Libya? Do we really want another Middle Eastern war zone? America’s finally started to get it’s military policy turned the right way round(Out of Iraq-Into Afghan)And we have Health care- Debt- and other things to worry about. Frankly I really don’t care about Libya, we might have the troops to pull it off but Public support would fade too fast. I’d actually like it if Europe got involved in Libya see how they like managing the middle east… they like to criticize us about how “Imperialistic” See how they like dealing with a bunch of