To Hell With The Shores Of Tripoli

Looks like it's groundhog day all over again for American foreign policy.  Get ready, our latest taste for military adventurism turns back to the history-worn headache of North Africa and the Mediterranean.  The sexy jingoism of  "No Fly Zones" has already been cued up by the networks and molded into a moment of moral clarity for president Obama to stand with the Libyan people.

How excited I am to wave the flag for America's next foray into a military contingency that involves none of our national interests.  As trade goes, the United States buys more girl scout cookies than it does Libyan goods, petroleum included.  And as far as retribution for Lockerbie goes,  I'm sure Qaddafi can be drawn and quartered without an American carrier battle group doing the heavy lifting for handicapped Europe.

A  Humanitarian crisis?  The whole middle east and its insipid leadership is a humanitarian crisis.  Apparently the UN didn't understand this truism when it voted Libya onto its human rights commission,  painfully illustrating what passes for collective common sense amongst the 'international' community.

Now the one-world-nation crowd, which turns its nose up on everything America stands for, is crowing for intervention by Uncle Sam.  Nuts!  This is the sentinel moment when the American eagle needs to push its European chicks out of their post-WWII comfort nest.
 
In case the Europeans haven't noticed, the U.S. has other commitments.  Surely there is some version of an Italian aircraft carrier-- complete with a working espresso machine to assuage the horrors of war-- which can be recalled from the Riviera and ordered to shoot up some Fiats in the Sahara.  C'mon, guys...it's time to relive the glory days of Ethiopia and Eritrea!

NATO, which today is nothing more than a European affirmative action program administered by the pentagon, has no business becoming involved in Libya, either.  Since 9/11, NATO has hopelessly attempted to expand its mission to include combating terrorism.  Yeah, right.  These European misfits view asymmetrical warfare as something resembling a recreational chase of a UFO. NATO serves one purpose: preventing eastern hordes from sacking Berlin and Vienna. Qaddafi is no Hannibal.  Militarily, Libya has no plans to invade the "soft underbelly" of Europe.  Instead, armies of refugees will begin their occupation of southern Italy, complete with demands for welfare entitlements and Sharia compliance.  If Italy wants to keep speaking Italian, she will stand up and own her responsibilities.  I won't hold my breath.

The European Union could help its own cause for relevance by establishing their own "no-fly zone" independent of  American involvement.  Cameron and Sarkozy  both seem to own a pair.  The countries that produced  T.E. Lawrence and the Foreign Legion respectively, should be more than capable of flying sorties over Libya.

President Obama has fully revealed himself as a weak-kneed interloper with regards to foreign policy.  His world view is convoluted gobbledygook, honed in the syllabuses of Occidental college and Columbia University Political Science departments.  America should be terrified.  Fortunately, a sober Bill Gates still runs the DOD.  He should continue to ride roughshod over the Chicago machine that's chasing its own tail and barking at noises which are of little concern to the United States.

The devastation in Japan is of concern to America--and the world.  Perhaps the president could put gender equality video addresses and gun control op-ed pieces on hiatus and get to the business of finding a voice on what America's priorities are.

Mr. President, they're not in Libya... and they're not on a golf course!