I love the Judge Napalotano's take on it. And fully agree with it.
There, Obama unlawfully, deceptively and unconstitutionally bombed Libya in an effort either to kill Col. Gadhafi, its former strongman and American ally, or to weaken his defenses until he surrendered. It was unlawful because he used the CIA to fight a war. It was deceptive because he lied about no boots on the ground ("boots" referring to troops, rather than intelligence agents with military hardware). It was unconstitutional because under the Constitution, only Congress may declare war on another country. This was an act of war on a legitimate government, one that then-President George W. Bush and then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair praised a few years earlier as a partner in the war against terror, and one that posed no threat whatsoever to American freedom.
Now we know that some of the very same people the U.S. fought – and supposedly defeated in Afghanistan and Iraq – were part of the coalition of violent militias that ousted Gadhafi with the help of American bombs. And the government they wrought is too weak to protect our diplomats and our real estate there from them. And so they attacked our unguarded consulate in Benghazi and killed our ambassador, and so far they have gotten away with it.
Does anyone really believe the nonsense from the Obama administration that the recent killings of Americans and others and the destruction in the Arab world are about a 15-minute grade-C movie trailer with dubbed voices and terrible acting and no plot or message? Or is the violence about the opportunity of those Bush and Obama trusted to run new governments to vent their hatred?
Is it not more likely that when the West supported toppling Arab strongmen, the rioters in the streets saw that as a signal to express hatred toward the meddling West? Might Obama’s drones, which have fallen all over the Middle East killing innocents in schools and hospitals, at weddings and funerals, and demolishing mosques and homes, be coming back to haunt him?
The Arab Spring has become the Western Winter, brought about by two American presidents who thought they could kill without moral justification or painful consequence. We should come home from these barbaric places and leave them alone. We should trade with them, since they want to buy our iPads and washing machines and blue jeans, but let them run their own governments
The Arab Spring Becomes a Western Winter
