"Obama's insistence that (1) he wants Moammar Gadhafi out of power, and (2) is firing missiles at him, but (3) these things are unconnected. "Broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake," Obama says. Instead, we're just going to "deny the regime arms, cut off its supply of cash, assist the opposition, and work with other nations to hasten the day when Gadhafi leaves power."
So all that bombing, I guess, is sort of like the heavy-metal music the U.S. Army played two decades ago to coax Panama's Manuel Noriega out of the embassy where he was holed up — except now it's with shrapnel.
Sadly, Obama is not the first American president to think there's such a thing as being a little bit militarily pregnant."
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