Showing some sensitivity to considerable criticism that he has left many Americans confused by the ill-defined mission there and by abundant fears that the Democrat had appointed himself international marshal against brutal dictators worldwide, Obama waited only four sentences to note: "The United States should not — and cannot — intervene every time there’s a crisis somewhere in the world..."
Additionally, the White House announced the Democrat would give a speech on the Libyan situation Monday evening, more than nine days after hostilities were commenced and missiles launched. He will not, however, give an Oval Office address as President Clinton did immediately upon launching cruise missiles in 1998 in retaliation for the bombing of U.S. embassies in East Africa. Obama has chosen as his friendly Monday audience the National Defense University in Washington.
A news conference, given the bipartisan uproar over Obama's lack of pre-war congressional consultation, would have provided no control over a plethora of awkward questions about the timing, costs, manpower, goals, conflicting administration lines, shifting command structures and precedents being set by this as yet clearly defined Obama doctrine.
A receptive audience of respectful military members Monday will also preclude questions about why the Libyan situation requires U.S. military intervention but numerous other examples of massive dictatorial brutality do not, and how Obama's oft-repeated opposition to military intervention and regime change in Iraq squares with his eagerness to commit U.S. forces this time.
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