Photo: Neda Soltan, one of thousands slaughtered in Iran during the peaceful protests for democracy (see here and here) in 2009. Obama's priorities.
There is one constant in Obama's foreign policy: he has consistently sided with our worst enemies throughout his disastrous presidency. This is very thoroughly explained and meticulously documented in my book, The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America.
Why Libya? It would be one thing if Obama had been fighting the forces of jihad through a muscular foreign policy.
News has "leaked" that Obama authorized a secret war in Libya weeks ago -- imagine if a Republican ever pulled a fatal stunt like that. And if it was secret, why is Obama leaking it?
Why Libya?
Why wasn't such action taken when millions took to the streets in Iran, so as to cut off the head of the snake?
June 17th, 2009: BACKING THE MULLAHS: OBAMA'S COWARDICE AND HYPOCRISY IN IRAN
Iran has been supporting the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, the unrest in Bahrain, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. You don't go to war at once, you go to war at last. And Iran has been at war with us and the free world for decades.
Instead, our finest, bravest Americans are risking their lives to fight alongside al qaeda in Libya. What could possibly be the end game here, whilst Al-Qaeda is snatching missiles in Libya? The "rebels" that Obama has secretly authorized to arm sold Hizballah and Hamas chemical shells.
I am not a fan of Gaddafi -- there are no heroes in this story -- but Saddam Hussein made Gaddafi look like Angelina Jolie, and yet the left is still whining and hand wringing about that war. But they support this. What is their premise? Bush went to Congress and went to the UN (and gave Saddam, the butcher of Baghdad, a year to move and/or destroy his weapons of mass destruction). Obama just went to war -- without Congress, without even discussing it with the American people. And again I ask, as I have repeatedly for weeks, why? Why Libya? Why Gaddafi?
Assad in Syria is much worse than, say, Mubarak in Egypt, but Obama vows not to interfere in that vassal of Iran, despite the slaughter of their people. And Obama supports the Muslim Brotherhood, which is steadily taking control in Egypt. To what end?
Why hasn't Obama taken such action against the jihad pirates in Somalia? Why not a "secret war" in Ethiopia to aid their fight against the jihad? Or aid for the fight against jihad in Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia? Because we can't be everywhere, nor should we be. So we pick our fights based on where we could do the most good and remove the biggest evil.
Iran should have been the target. The mullahcracy should have been removed.
Why Libya?
Exclusive: Obama authorizes secret help for Libya rebels | Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing covert U.S. government support for rebel forces seeking to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, government officials told Reuters on Wednesday.
Obama signed the order, known as a presidential "finding", within the last two or three weeks, according to four U.S. government sources familiar with the matter.
Such findings are a principal form of presidential directive used to authorize secret operations by the Central Intelligence Agency. The CIA and the White House declined immediate comment.
News that Obama had given the authorization surfaced as the President and other U.S. and allied officials spoke openly about the possibility of sending arms supplies to Gaddafi's opponents, who are fighting better-equipped government forces.
I still don't know who we're fighting in Libya... and I read a lot...
The SAS went in to find out apparently... and got caught (somehow!).
I'm happy we stopped some massacres, and in theory will prove to the arab world we're actually nice people (not going to happen because they're not intelligent people sadly) but I am not happy the country will probably turn Islamified.
Posted by: Poosh | Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 09:30 AM
Made Gadaffi look like.... You apparently forgot that Gadaffi was the main sponsor of international, Palestinian & left wing terror groups back in the 70ies. Part of the present day airport security hassle is due to his involvement in airplane hijacks. Saddam Hussein murdered his own population, but Gadaffi went cross border even if only by his financial support.
Posted by: mindRider | Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 09:43 AM
He better kill Gadaffi or Gadaffi is coming back at us. He can. He has before.
Posted by: ahem | Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 10:32 AM
But Gaddafi has been workin with us chasin down Al Qaeda. So basically to overthrow Murbarac for the Muslim Brother hood and take out Gaddafi for Al Qaeda makes no sence unless you wish to remove US influence from the region, streghten Iran and "wipe Israel of the face of the earth"! You all heard my rant by now about the 12th Inman clearing out the ME and rebuilding Solomon's Temple for the NWO.
Other reasons I've read are:
1. Gaddafi does not have his banking system tied into the world system. It's supposedly truely independent. Don't know if this is true or not. If it is it can not be tolerated by the NWO. Supposedly the first thing the rebels did once they controlled their primary city was to establish a BANK tied to the world banking system! LOL!
2. He is on record about nationalizing the oil companies in Lybia. Very bad precedence in the ME, and can not be tolerated buy the NWO.
3. Farakahan and da REV WRIGHT (gag/gag) say it's about the vast underground water reserves located under Lybia. All the NWO propaganda talk about water shortages and water wars in the future.
Common people, let's hear some other crazy ideas.
Posted by: Mac-101 | Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 10:36 AM
WHY Libya?
Quite similar to Iraq, Libya does NOT have nuclear weapons or other destructive means at present to defend itself.
WHY Libya?
Because, unlike dictators in Pakistan, Jordan, Egypt, or so-called Palestine, Libyan dictator does not take bribes from American government to do what American masters in Washington want him to do.
WHY Libya?
Libyan dictator is quite like late Iraqi dictator who is never liked by his Islamic neighbors.
WHY Libya?
European oil-interest is linked to a stable government in Libya.
WHY Libya?
Libya is NOT like the Islamic Republic of Iran or Democratic People's Republic of Korea where America military adventure cannot be successful without a single American casualty.
WHY Libya?
Because, SOS Hillary Clinton, U.S. Envoy Susan Rice, and Professor Samantha Powers are deeply in favor of saving Islam at all costs.
WHY Libya?
Because, initially Ms. Pamela Geller was favoring American military actions to save the lives of Muslim rebels.
Posted by: Majumder | Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 10:59 AM
Anything to make that POS look good (O) ....he's in campaign mode..the fool on the hill. Who is your god obama? Saudi's, Soro's, China, Russia? We are Americans you will NOT break us!!!!!!
Posted by: djones | Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 11:19 AM
Why is it that so many people can't work this out for themselves? Braindead or brainwashed, can't quite decide which.
Collectively, we should be outraged and on the streets demanding our Governments step down and retreat from Libya at once. Instead, the majority dhimmis lazily put their wholehearted trust in our corrupt government officials, to our detriment.
G*d help us all.
Posted by: dented | Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 11:21 AM
Pamela, excellent post. The Obama base which put him in power will never understand the realities of the middle east; I've lived in the middle east, I challenge to have any of these left-wing, socialist pundits live in the middle east for just a month. I find it coincidental, but just yesterday I posted on my blog a similar topic, I labeled it "Barack Obama's WARS! Is it weakness or part of his agenda?" The Obama base has know idea how deep Obama's ideology penetrates, how vast is the regime in the USA that Obama has within our communities, schools, churches; unfortunately, these left-wing, loones can't see beyond Obama's pretty speeches. CAN'T THEY SEE THAT JUST 2 DAYS AFTER HIS SPEECH ON LIBYA HE HAS APPROVED COVERT OPS! The ignorance of the left is unforgivable. Pamela, great blog, great book, I have you linked on my site! Let's continue the fight against the men and women who personify evil, they are in our mists yet many fail to see them. The Greatest Trick the Devil Ever Pulled Was Convincing the World He Didn't Exist . . . — A 147 Year Old Proverb. Find me at www.theworstnamesinnews.com
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Posted by: hotairnews | Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 12:46 PM
why? Why Libya? Why Gaddafi?
You're joking right?
Because the communist COWARD moslim USURPER is the HEAD moslim terrorist and LOVES islam and jihad and HATES the United States and Israel.
Posted by: allahobama | Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 02:53 PM
Contrary to what the "experts" conclude, Obama's foreign policy is neither "a mystery," "incoherent," nor "demented." It's treason.
Just like his domestic policy. (But's that's going too slowly for someone who's got only a few months left on his License to Bring Down America from Within.)
Reports this week show that B. Hussein's bombing of Libya to help its rebels is aiding Al Qaeda, who have joined it. That's no surprise to anyone who's been paying attention, since when Iranians protested against Islamic rule in Iran and were murdered in the streets, all Obama could muster was "Let's not get involved in others' internal politics. Where's the ice cream?"
Look at the facts: Obama's enforcing suicidal Rules of Engagement in Afghanistan. He's bombing Qaddafi in Libya to help a rebellion supported in word and personnel by Al Qaeda. He supported Mubarak's removal in Egypt, which has given the country to the Muslim Brotherhood; Egypt's Copts have gone from the frying pan and into the fire.
When President Bush was deciding what to do in response to the global jihad, his ignorance of Islam prevented him from recognizing the truth about our enemy, and he erred accordingly. Obama has no similar excuse.
If the "smartest president ever" who was raised Muslim and attended Qur'an classes does everything he can to aid the rise of Islamic rule throughout the lands of Islam, it's no accident.
It's treason.
http://amillennialist.blogspot.com/2011/03/contrary-to-experts-obamas-foreign.html
Posted by: Amillennialist | Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 03:35 PM
If President Baraq Hussein is committing TREASON, why aren't Republicans in the U.S. Congress impeaching him?
Nobody can say that Republicans now do not have the majority votes in Congress to do so.
That proves the fact that, Republicans do the same Islamization of America when they are in power.
Posted by: Majumder | Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 03:44 PM
It certainly is a wonder that Orotten would get so bent out of shape about the Libyan civilians and go to war against Qadafhi when it is on record that he went back to his home country in 2006 and assisted not only in the overthrow of the Kenya's democratically-elected government there but underwrote as well the massacre of thousands of innocent Kenyan civilians who did no more than support the government that was legitimately in power and oppose Raila Odinga's coup d'etat. Stated another way, why would Obama care more about the civilians in Libya than the civilians in his own country?
Something is not adding up right.
ps: because of grave political corruption in the legal system, removing Obama from power is not possible at the present time, unfortunately because if ever we needed to remove a president from office, this one is IT. We will have to clean up our courts and remove crooked judges etc. before we have a chance of righfully removing Obama from the Oval Office.
Posted by: islamowicz | Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 04:56 PM
For all his shocking weakness he did, in fact, go totally Caesar on the Maersk Alabama pirates.
Posted by: monst0r | Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 07:04 PM
Why? Because Obama's aim is to harm Israel. Strengthening the forces of jihad in the Mideast will endanger Israel.
Posted by: Laura L | Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 07:59 PM
I don't recall Pam advocating our military involvement in Libya.
Posted by: Laura L | Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 10:27 PM
I remember when Bush went to war with Iraq, the libs kept saying that Iran was the real threat. So why didn't they go after Iran? Why didn't they at least say something in support of the people of Iran? BECAUSE THEY ARE HYPOCRITES! And also, because Obama favors our most dangerous enemies, AND THE DEMS WON'T GO AGAINST HIM! (That means that they support what he is doing.)
Posted by: Person of the Book | Friday, April 01, 2011 at 12:50 AM
What bothers me the most is the sale of chemical weapons and missiles of all sorts to Hezbullah and to Hamas made by these so called rebels. This doesn't make sense for the Americans to allow happen unless to a man (and woman) the Administration of King Obama is hell bent on the destruction of Israel. More information on these missile sales to these known terrorist groups needs to be published.
Posted by: Georg von Starkermann | Friday, April 01, 2011 at 09:12 AM
D**s y**r g*d abh*r* v*w*ls?
Posted by: Tom Billesley | Saturday, April 02, 2011 at 03:57 AM
Quoted from and linked to this post over at my place:
Libyan Lunacy Linkaround
http://zillablog.marezilla.com/2011/04/libyan-lunacy-linkaround.html
Posted by: Zilla | Monday, April 04, 2011 at 03:55 PM