Don’t get me wrong.  I want to see Muam­mar Al-Gaddafi ousted from power.  He is a ter­ror­ist; he appar­ently ordered the Pan Am 103 bomb­ing in 1988 that killed 190 Amer­i­cans.  How­ever, our cur­rent lead­er­ship obvi­ously has no clear strat­egy or man­date for what they’re doing now.  It’s not our place to be the police force for the world.  As good as it sounds, we can’t install democ­ra­cies in every coun­try around the world.  We have to take care of our own house first.

Also, Iraq and Afghanistan.  The Iraq War of 2003, although it was done with good inten­tions and with coali­tion sup­port, was based off of flawed intel­li­gence.  All of the lead­ers of this coun­try, both Repub­li­can and Democrat, at the time appar­ently had the same intel­li­gence — Sad­dam Hus­sein had weapons of mass destruc­tion and must be removed from power.  I have no doubt he did have WMDs.  It’s widely known that he used mus­tard gas on his own peo­ple in 1988.  How­ever, as much as I agreed with Saddam’s oustal and sup­ported it at the time, it was han­dled wrongly.

Afghanistan in 2001 was the war we should have fought and should still be fight­ing.  We have to make sure that the Tal­iban is routed and Al Qaeda can never go back there and use Afghanistan as a base of oper­a­tions.  It is para­mount that Al Qaeda, and par­tic­u­larly Osama Bin Laden, never see the light of day again.

Those two con­flicts, in which we are still engaged, should be our pri­mary focus still.  Libya is yet another front we can ill afford.  This is one case where I say let our allies (Great Britain, France, et. al.)  han­dle it for once.  Let’s get our sol­diers in Iraq and Afghanistan through with their mis­sion and home before we open up another war front.