Tonight, at 7:30 p.m. Eastern, “the president will deliver an address at the National Defense University in Washington, DC to update the American people on the situation in Libya, including the actions we’ve taken with allies and partners to protect the Libyan people from the brutality of Moammar Qaddafi, the transition to NATO command and control, and our policy going forward.”

As someone who has wanted the president to explain our long-term strategy in the war kinetic military action, I’m glad to see this. Of course, it’s not all he’s doing today.

This morning, Obama will participate in a town hall hosted by Univision at Bell Multicultural High School in Washington, discussing the V-Chip school uniforms curfews for teenagers “the importance of out-educating the competition in order to win the future.” I’m sure Dick Morris would approve.

UPDATE: Readers note a CNN report declaring, “President Obama’s Libya speech began taking shape late last week, but the “themes have been in development for weeks,” according to a senior administration official.

Weeks? We’ve been at war “kinetic military action” for 9 days. The administration was working on this speech long before this conflict began?

Perhaps the speech isn’t to justify the kinetic military action. Perhaps the kinetic military action is to justify the speech.