Libya: Time for Barry to rock and roll?

While natural disasters and the “Japan Syndrome” have been taking place in Asia an old-fashioned “mellavahess” has been growing ever deeper in Libya.

Quadaffi Duck’s forces are steadily taking back some of the gains made by rebel forces amidst continuing talk, mostly outside Libya and off the African continent, promoting intervention to help the uprising. Now it’s easy as hell to say Obama should do this or that. See, I’ll show you.

Obama should order bombing of Quadaffi’s palaces and where intelligence-gatherers believe nut-boy is staying. I’m sure our intelligence has at least an idea. And since we have satellites that can determine whether a tiny camel is salsa dancing inside the head of a needle then surely those spy satellites can tell where the present-day Libyan Army is bivouacked so a couple of  Navy F-18s could scream over head and rain down their lethal arsenals. Who needs a no-fly zone when you take out the entire Libyan Air Force on the ground?

That is not to say the above is what I would do. I would probably be sweating bullets and having a nervous breakdown were I the person who determines the course of action in Libya.

France wants to go in, guns a-blazing, at least after creating a no-fly zone. France. Can you believe it? I am not a perpetual French-basher, Freedom Fries type of guy. After all, Ben Franklin and others  beat the drum for Franco assistance during the revolution. Support came in various from French folk like Beaumarchais, LaFayette, L’Enfant, Maurice Chevalier, Marcel Marceau and Pierre Alsace-Lorraine.  Even though we’ve repaid the French a couple of times over, we still owe them a debt of gratitude. But between Great Britain and France, not a lot enthusiasm exists for Libyan intervention right now.

Just today I heard on one news report some English-speaking Libyans say they need help. It is the first such words I have heard on the subject, or perhaps I wasn’t listening. We should not involve our military into more Middle East conflict or conflict period for that matter, though. But, haven’t we done that with Libya for quite some time? Think back to the Ronny Ray Guns era.

I don’t fault Obama for doing nothing in Libya. Perhaps that is the most prudent step right now. I do think this is the time for Barack Obama, the tall kid with the big ears from Honolulu to step up to the plate and say “follow me.” This country, the democratic nations, the most prosperous nations in the world all need leadership because it is lacking.

People much, much smarter than me are behind the scenes figuring out the first two or three hundred moves before the next move the United States needs to take in all the turmoil in North Africa and the Middle East, not to mention in the Japan Syndrome.

Okay, you might detest oil and the oil industrial complex. But that is what makes the Little Train That Could, Could — at least for the present that is.  We’ve got some real challenges right now. Mr. Barry O, I think it’s time to step up to the plate.