Hey, remember when that hapless boob Bush read “My Pet Goat” to schoolkids in a dire emergency?

[robkelk]

The rebels in Libya are about to be slaughtered, and looking to the U.S. as the one thing that might save them. What do they get? More empty words from "The One" that Qadaffy must go. And zero action.

Well, yes - that's about all he realistically can do. What reason does the US have to interfere in a civil war? (Consider Vietnam before answering that question.)

Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Obama golfed while Japan burned.

I think you'd better take a look at what help the US has already sent to Japan...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012