Why Obama has the Right Stuff!

It is in the core nature of any individual who becomes President of the United states of America that he (or she) can ride the waves of popularity and gain the applause of the masses, or the President can reach down deep with himself and find that central core placed there by God that allowed him to be President in the first place.

President Obama has the “right stuff” to made him a hero to generations of the world’s citizens. But he must first accept, with deep humility, the fact of his election as President of the USA.

I believe that witnessing via video the killing of the arch-enemy Osama Bin Laden should drive the President to his knees in prayer. Such an event as the ending of another human persons life, (arch-enemy or not) is a crisis event. An individual can come away from it with an erection of pride or come away from it in deep humility and awesome angst.

Why awesome angst? Because the killing of one human person by another, no matter if a Special Forces soldier does it under the President’s authority, is still murder! Perhaps some will want to soften the accusation with the term Justifiable Manslaughter, but the end result is the same. The person who ordered the “hit” and the person who carried out the order have the blood of the victim on their hands. Harsh. Yes! But such is the nature of homicide.

It is not a cavalier endeavor and it definitely is not a video game. Please remember that the trained professional at the trigger of the weapon, fired on the orders of the President of the USA.

It is to be quickly granted that the heartbeats of three thousand (plus) persons were stilled by the cold-blooded decision of the terrorist.

And, immediately, it is granted by this writer, that the terrorist Osama Bin Laden never regretted his decision to kill over three thousand innocent people. So the fiend deserved to die.

Nevertheless, it is crucial for Americans, as a people, to understand that the way of violence and the way of terror and the way of murder, IS NOT THE AMERICAN WAY. We may be forced to it by others and by circumstances, but such a way is inherently antithetical to the American way.

I am not in any way, shape or form critical of President Obama in this case. But I wish that we could have brought Osama Bin Laden to the bar of Justice where he could have espoused his terrorist views, Then we could have heard him defend himself and his murderous ways. Then we could have listened and tried to understand what is going wrong in our world. Then we could have analyzed what he said in court and having heard, we could have judged not only him but the cause he espoused.

Friends, this writer wants peace in his time. He also wants peace for his children and grandchildren.

I am sure that President Bush wanted and now President Obama wants the same for themselves and theirs.

Do we really believe that Osama Bin Laden and the others wanted less for themselves and their children and grandchildren?

What’s the problem?

It is the failure of diplomacy. Which is to say, that it is the failure of the conversation of common- unionication!

What is the answer?

Firstly, I think that President Obama has reached a critical moment in his Personal life as well as his Presidency.

What is it?

It is his decision as to whether he wants the way of violence and personal destruction or he wants the way of peace with all of its torturous twists and turns without violence.

This is one of those moments of destiny.

President Obama has already chosen a unique path. But this path leads to a crossroad. Which way will he turn? Will it be toward the CIA and the Special forces? Both of them tools in the hands of politicians. Or will he turn toward the values of the Nobel Peace Prize?

We’ll just need to wait and see!

And we need to pray.

USA Not “AT WAR” with Libya!

This is a key issue, no doubt, but an even more serious issue is that President Obama and the Obama administration are carrying out an illegal war in Libya. I deal with this issue on my Word Press blog, “progressive politics” where I have expansive coverage. In essence, the Obama administration did not come to congress when they volunteered to breech the sovereignty of a Sovereign Nation. Libya is recognized around the world as a legal State in the community of nations. It does not matter to the international community that Libyan leader Gaddafi is the “head of the revolution”, which is his self styled moniker. Rather, as recently as last week, the international community recognized the right of the government in Tripoli to appoint ambassadors. The case I am speaking of occurred in Stockholm. The Swedish ambassador from Libya sided with the ragtag rebels against the central government of Libya. The Libyan government under Gaddafi sent a replacement. The Swedish government recognized the replacement and disenfranchised the rebel ambassador. Why does this mean anything? Because it recognizes the present government of Libya as the legal government of Libya. So, now on to the USA, France and Britain. Under the guise of resolution 1973 from the United Nations, the Obama administration has declared “Regime Change” as its’ official policy when President Obama stated that “Gaddafi must go”. Then under the cover of the U. N. resolution 1973 to “…use all means to protect civilians in Libya”, the USA, France and Britain decided that the rebels were civilians and needed to be protected, while the uniformed legal army, navy and air force of Libya were “agents of the dictator” and therefore were to be attacked and destroyed using NATO military power. Then using brutal military force the NATO partners invaded the air space of Libya, bombed its cities, attacked it army, civil governent and killed it’s civilians. All of this under the guise of delivering humanitarian aid to the people of Libya. Since when is humanitarian aid delivered on the tip of 212 cruise missiles? Since it’s inception, this invasion has been a war without a declaration of war. Many bloggers claim that the United Nations resolution 1973 allowing nations to use “…all necessary force” against Gaddafi is legal for USA forces. Not so, the Congress must approve such expenditure of USA military power on foreign adventures against a sovereign nation that has neither attacked us, nor our embassy, nor held our people hostage. Other bloggers have stated that Gaddafi is a legal target since he is the head of state of a nation with which we are at war. However, the USA is not at war with Libya since only the Congress of the USA has the constitutional power to declare war. Yet others, have said that under the understanding of war crimes coming out of WW II and the Nuremberg Trials, plus the Geneva Conventions, and the USA Rule of Land Warfare manuals, USA forces are allowed to attack, destroy and render inoperative the military, civil and legal forces of a nation with which we are at war. However, we are NOT at legal war with Libya. Therefore, I submit that the whole operation of the USA against the internationally recognized government of Libya, (a member nation of the United Nations) is inherently illegal according to USA law,( no Congressional Declaration of War); according to UN law, (which declares that the military forces of members states will not be used to overthrow the governments of other member states), according to the Nuremberg Trials that declared that the military and civil leaders of Germany were criminal aggressors because they invaded another nation (Poland) under the pretense of attack (Russia too?) and according to the USA Rule of Land Warfare that recognizes that a Nation State that is not in a declared war with another Nation State and nonetheless unilaterally and with itself NOT being attacked, attacks, is a criminal aggressor!

Next American Boots on the Ground in Libya

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110420/wl_nm/us_libya_gaddafi_2 So when we read this article we realize the following:

1. We should never have attacked the independent Nation of Libya.

2. The State department is in favor of American boots on the ground in Libya.

3. There is administration plan to get the UN and not the USA Congress to approve our use of American soldiers as “boots on the ground in Libya”

4. Obama CIA advisor says in this article that the USA must be part of a boots on the ground effort to oust Gaddafi from power in Libya and that this CIA advisor thinks it will easy and then we can merely and simply hand off the occupation of Libya to Pakistan, Turkey and Indonesia.

5. Key to all of this will war hawk Senator McCain warmongering among the House and Senate Hawks to get into a ground war in Libya.

Please write your congress person and Senator opposing Boots on the ground in Libya.

NATO Claim Indicates Error.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110413/ap_on_go_ot/uc_us_libya

The French and The British tried to fool the USA into thinking that Libya was in a state of civil war against Gaddafi. They further tried to topple the Libyan government by using the ruse of humanitarian support for beleaguered civilians. The early days of UN sanctioned support have given way to lesser USA support and a worldwide rejection of the British and French lies. The Libyan people were not in general uprising against their government. The rebel army was a motley crew of ragtag insurrectionists, disgruntled former army officers, and Al Qaida operatives. The Libya government was not crumbling under the leadership of a maniacal dictator and the army of Libya remained loyal to the government. Therefore, the Brits and the French want to increase ground attacks against Libyan Army personnel and equipment in order thereby to topple the government, cripple Libyan domestic organization, create general hardship and disruption of security and to install a unknown, untried, and disorganized array of anti Gaddafi leaders, all of whom had previously fled the nation and were living comfortably in France and Britain while the good people of Libya tried to cooperate with the government and through processes of consistent and loyal opposition to the regime gain concessions and internal improvements to the lives of the ordinary Libyan citizen. These efforts were recognized by both the Bush (43) and Obama administrations who sent high level diplomats to Tripoli and by a process of identifying past wrongs, (Lockerbie) the payment and the acceptance of the payments as restitution for Lockerbie, and pledges of greater cooperation with the West and promises of increased democratic freedoms in Libya, achieved significant progress toward promises of measured democratic freedom in Libya. Now, by a process of criminal aggression, the Western European Nations, backed by a naive and inexperienced President, have destroyed not only all improvement, but because of their own diabolical attempt at a new capitalist colonial imperialism in Libya, have ignited fears throughout the region that they will attack other nations and destroy them as well. President Obama is right to stay in a support role and should be bolder. He should withdraw support for attacks against Libyan government forces because it is obvious that the general population is not in rebellion against the government. Secondly, President Obama should respond through formal diplomatic channels to the Libyan government with reassurances that formal and not back channel diplomatic engagement for a resolution of the criminal aggression is desired. Thirdly, the President should remove the “Gaddafi must go” statement with assurances that the USA is not a party to regime change imposed by aggressive former colonial and imperialist nations. And the USA will withdraw all special forces personnel, trainers of the rebels, secret CIA agents, and clandestine USA fighters from Libya. Fourthly, embassy should be made to the Tripoli government with promises that build on the three above, to include money payments by US oil interests for the rebuilding of the destroyed security and infrastructure of Libya in return for free and fair access to Libyan oil deposits. In return, the Libyan government will agree to a gradual, guaranteed, long term process of democratization of Libya in cooperation with USA diplomatic missions and overseen by joint commissions of Libyan government and American diplomatic personnel.

Let’s Help Obama Get Out Of Libya

Get out of Libya. That is what Secretary of Defense Gates meant when he addressed the Congressional committee. Let’s face it, Obama made a mistake and he should be big enough and bold enough to realize it, confess it but above all, he needs to get out of Libya. We can all help in this. Our President is very inexperienced and naive about most things and especially about international affairs. In the case of Libya he made a very big mistake and when the election comes he will be judged, but in the meantime, he is the President and has committed our forces to pursue the wrong policy and engage in the wrong war. Libya is minimally a rebellion of dissent former army officers and maximally a civil war. In both cases, the USA has nothing to do with it. This is even more true when we consider our lack of involvement in the Ivory Coast where there are thousands of genocidal deaths. In Libya almost none and definitely none genocidal. So, what to do? We need to cut the President some slack, and for now let him off the hook he so foolishly got all Americans onto when he arrogantly pronounced that Gaddafi must go. The President must totally disengage from Libya immediately. This course of action is in our national self interest. Additionally, we can encourage Obama to take diplomatic initiatives to impress upon Gaddafi our help if he takes immediate actions to democratize his government. President Obama’s ideological doggedness should not involve our nation in pursuit of the wrong cause for the wrong reasons no matter how nice a guy we think our smiling President to be. Rather, in the use of lethal force, we need to encourage our President to stop immediately his ill advised foray into an adventure which is really a third war.