Libya: Who Will Do Something?

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At last look, the carnage in Libya continues. Muammar Gaddafi continues to rain death upon his own people. He is ready, willing and able to run a protracted civil war, pitting tanks and guns against unarmed civilians. It’s going from a civil war to a massacre. We, the American people, feel for the Libyans. We wish we could do something – we wish we could help overthrow this tyrannical leader and bring peace back to your country. But our leader, no our leader is soft. He is weak. Even in the face of overwhelming evidence of people suffering and dying, he delays decisions. When he does respond, he responds meekly. This man is not the leader we want. This man does not represent us. So Sarkozy is stepping up in Europe, and saying and doing what Barack Obama should have done all along, but is too weak to do. With luck, at least some leaders out there care enough about the Libyan people to do something about it.

America: A Step Behind

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In Obama’s zeal to drive a stake into American exceptionalism and strength, he lets other countries take the lead on issues where we should lead. In his enthusiasm to make us a follower nation, as opposed to a leader nation, he purposely delays and mutes responses to terrible oppression, which no one can deny. The slaughter in Libya is but one example: even the European Union, which has never been known to move quickly, moved faster and in a more decisive way than Obama did. This saddens many Americans, who saw the bloodshed in Libya and desperately wanted our President to strongly and immediately condemn the violence. He does not speak for most Americans, and actively works to make us into a follower. I’m thinking that, like most Americans, we don’t want that.

Obama Weakens Us

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With Obama’s very tepid response to the slaughter in Libya, he not only shows himself to be a terrible leader when it comes to foreign policy and someone who does not strongly come out against violations of human rights, he also weakens us in the eyes of the world. When a tyrannical leader unleashes deadly force against his own people, and the American president doesn’t immediately take the stage to strongly condemn and sanction that country, he brands us as weak and passive to the rest of the world And there is nothing bullies like better than a weak and passive victim. Obama’s stance to the rest of the world is so weak, that he is basically welcoming attack. When he makes statements like “we can absorb a terrorist attack” and now has this stance of weakness, he emboldens terrorists around the world to take their shot. I’ll bet our counter terrorist teams groan in dismay when they hear him speak.