Reply #70: Let's take a look at the facts and analyze them [View All]

[Exilednight]

Due to secetarian tensions, countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Jordan and Kuwait were not find of Libya. Several countries that supported the NFZ have had buyers remorse since the start of military attacks.

To pretend that this is not about oil is intellectually dishonest. France and GB receive vast amounts of their oil from Libya. If that oil supply is shut off, then GB and France have no other option but to seek their oil from other sources, namely the same people we get our oil from. Gas is currently edging $4.00/gallon; if GB and France were to have to push other countries like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to push up their oil output, and if that were to happen then we will be wishing for the days of $4.00/gallon gas.

Kristof is pretty smart guy, and he's right about the fact that our foreign policy is inconsistent and has no true compass in which to guide it. Obama has failed to lay out a doctrine on which our foreign policy is guided and how we make the decision of which countries we do and do not help. If someone looks close enough, someone can figure it out, but he's failed to put it in simple English to the American people. Of course, he probably doesn't want anyone to know that oil is still our guiding principle.

With oil supporting our foreign policy decisions, you're right: the smart analysts does support this operation, but the humanitarian part is complete bullshit.