Sunday, March 20, 2011

U.S. action against Libya: As Obama was in seven days to the commander

Barack Obama is adamantly behind the UN resolution against Libya and Gaddafi threatened with air strikes. Ironically, before the anniversary of the Iraq war. It is a defining moment in his presidency - and his first own troop deployment. It is a new sound. Unthinkable when he was still a candidate, the candidate of peace, the wars of his predecessor refused and wanted to have to do with them as little as possible. But now he is president. And suddenly he's commander - his own first war.


On Friday afternoon, U.S. President Barack Obama enters the East Room of the White House, one of the shortest, but also the toughest speeches of his presidency. There is no open war speech, the word is never. But they sealed a week in which transformed the pacifist and the militarists at the end, he committed himself for the first time American troops for a new, distant front - unruly, but, he was clearly inevitable.

It is one of the most decisive moments in Obama's still young presidency. After the night UN resolution that paved the way for military strikes against Muammar al-Gaddafi, he had been silent for 20 hours. While the French and British have CBS, while the Germans doubted, since the White House waited from dear.

Not only because in Washington, first no one knows what to think of Gaddafi's recent charades. But above all because Obama is in a dilemma: He must his people to explain why he has become within a few days of bitter opponents advocated a U.S. military action - a U.S. military action in a now the third Islamic country, after Afghanistan and Iraq .

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