Obama goes to war, the US left goes awol

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The world works best when America leads.

– The late US diplomat Richard Holbrooke

One night, when I was editor of a news wire service on the graveyard shift in downtown Los Angeles, a respectable, middle-aged man in a neat business suit, calling himself Mr Wilson, approached me with a strange tale. We overnighters on duty alone at United Press through the long hours were used to being accosted by drunks, dopers, homeless people and a taster's menu of southern California lonely souls with their story. Mr Wilson, cleanshaven and persuasively reasonable, told me he'd just been kidnapped by aliens from Venus, had sex with their Queen ("the best of my life"), and then been safely deposited on Venice beach next to Santa Monica.

He was so plausibly likeable that I was almost convinced. So I drove him out to the ocean where, indeed, he was able to point out undeniable scorch marks in the sand where the Venutian ship had blasted off, plus three deep indentations where the tripod-shaped landing-gear of space vehicle had stood. Right then and there, I thought it possible I'd had my first encounter, if at second hand, with a real UFO.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/apr/05/us-military-libya