My friends at SiriusXM POTUS channel send along word that their morning anchor, Tim Farley, completed an interview with former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, discussing Libya and the Middle East. The interview will air tomorrow, but they offer a quick preview:
Obama unsure on Libya mission:
“It may very well be that one of the reasons he [Obama] didn’t go to Congress was that he didn’t know what his goals were or what the mission would be. And you can’t go to Congress and ask for support if you don’t have some reasonable precision as to what it is you plan to do. And we’ve heard varying views as to what the goal is. One person says it’s to have Gadhafi eliminated and taken out of office other people say, ‘no, that’s not the mission.’ So there’s so much confusion about it and it struck me that maybe the reason they haven’t gone to Congress is that.”
Is there any word from Congress on any sort of action to deal with this giant question?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseReally, who cares what Rumsfeld or someone from the previous "Mission Accomplished!" era thinks anyway?
The post-9/11 "Era of Republican Leadership" in foreign policy did not exactly work out too well.
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Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse@mlindroos "The post-9/11 'Era of Republican Leadership' in foreign policy did not exactly work out too well."
Well, it resulted in what "could be one of the great achievements of [the Obama] administration" according to Vice President Biden.
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Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseMLindroos, why is Obama adopting much of the same foreign policy used by "the post-9/11 'Era of Republican Leadership"?
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abusefor mr. Nonsense on stilts
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