As has become de reigueur, I must point out that we talked about Mr. Obama and the debt previously, as Mrs. Palin eventually drifts the conversation in that direction with nothing that has not already been said. Before Mrs. Palin finds her way into the economy, however, she meanders through the Libya situation:
You can’t vacillate when spending America’s human and fiscal resources in yet another foreign country without good reason. You said that Libyan leader Gaddafi has got to go. Many of us heard that as your call to action and agreed…
At this point, to avoid further mission creep and involvement in a third war – one we certainly can’t afford – you need to step up and justify our Libyan involvement … and if you can’t explain to Americans why we’re willing to protect Libyan resources and civilians but not Syria’s, Yemen’s, Bahrain’s, Egypt’s, Israel’s, etc., then there is no justification for U.S. human and fiscal resources to be spent.
Mr. Obama said in prepared remarks on March 28th:
At this point, the United States and the world faced a choice. Qaddafi declared he would show “no mercy” to his own people. He compared them to rats, and threatened to go door to door to inflict punishment. In the past, we have seen him hang civilians in the streets, and kill over a thousand people in a single day. Now we saw regime forces on the outskirts of the city. We knew that if we wanted -- if we waited one more day, Benghazi, a city nearly the size of Charlotte, could suffer a massacre that would have reverberated across the region and stained the conscience of the world.
It was not in our national interest to let that happen. I refused to let that happen. And so nine days ago, after consulting the bipartisan leadership of Congress, I authorized military action to stop the killing and enforce U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973.
Mr. Obama goes on to say that the U.S. has transferred the operation to NATO leaving the U.S. to play a supporting role, reducing the burden that the U.S. must shoulder:
In that effort, the United States will play a supporting role -- including intelligence, logistical support, search and rescue assistance, and capabilities to jam regime communications. Because of this transition to a broader, NATO-based coalition, the risk and cost of this operation -- to our military and to American taxpayers -- will be reduced significantly.
Is Mrs. Palin upset that the U.S. has been involved for over a month—or does she feel that over the past 29 days, that Mr. Obama has lost focus? Unfortunately, she does not make this clear, and even admits to not being aware of what Mr. Obama's plans.