In an op-ed in today's New York Times entitled "On the Line With Libya" (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/24/opinion/24kristof.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss), Nicholas Kristof writes:
"Skeptics will note that none of these moves would convince Colonel Qaddafi to be any more genteel. And these are uncertain levers, creating some risk that he would respond by going after citizens of the United States."
Qaddafi might "respond by going after citizens of the United States"? Excuse me, but hasn't Qadaffi already murdered U.S. citizens? Libya's ex-justice minister, Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, has just acknowledged what all the world already knew: Qaddafi personally ordered the Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people in 1988 (see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-12552587).
Of course Qaddafi's involvement in the Lockerbie bombing did not prevent President Obama from shaking the Libyan tyrant's hand with a warm smile. These photographs will yet come back to haunt Obama.
Kristof concludes:
"So let’s not sit on our hands."
Who is this "we"? What Kristof really means, but is unwilling to say explicitly (we mustn't criticize Obama), is that it is high time for the president, who in the past embraced Qaddafi, to do become proactive as this tragedy unfolds.
Unfortunately for the world, Obama "likes to watch" (http://jgcaesarea.blogspot.com/2011/02/jg-caesarea-middle-east-iq-test.html).
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