Yesterday (29/6/11) US President Obama gave his first full press conference since March. This was obviously timed to co-incide with the Chinese Prime Minister's visit to Germany. Although Obama covered a variety of topics in the hour long session the one that interested me the most was Libya because here the President appeared to be under very real political pressure.
Obama basically argued that because Qaddafi had killed some Americans in the 1980's American politicians couldn't possibly object to him being overthrown and instead were playing politics with the issue. That not true because it seems everyone - with the exception of Obama - can see that by authorising military action against Libya all Obama has done is caused tens of thousands of people to be killed unnecessarily while undermining US strategic interests. So I guess the question is what can American politicians do to get Obama to admit that he's made a mistake and correct it because right now it looks like America is facing death by a thousand cuts.
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