Open Thread

Yes Snappy, that is a very good idea. Can you please give a 10 minute presentation to the lunch club on lesbian sex (technique, positions, etiquette, etc)?

Thank you in advance.

Jackal
Club Secretary

Obama’s lack of strategy regarding Libya is starting to hurt…

Obama Under Pressure to Clear ‘Ambiguity’ From Libya Strategy
March 25 (Bloomberg) — Almost a week after U.S. warplanes began dropping bombs on Libya, House Speaker John Boehner fired off a letter to President Barack Obama that posed a basic
question: What are we fighting for?
Obama’s responses to unrest throughout the Middle East and his actions in Libya show an approach to projecting U.S. power that contrasts with the certitude of President George W. Bush’s doctrine of unilateral preemption of perceived threats and promotion of democracy.
The emerging Obama doctrine balances humanitarian ideals and pragmatic national interests, places a premium on international backing and accepts limited goals.
The result is not easily explained.
“The Obama administration does not have a simple tale to tell, and the tale it has told it has told poorly,” said James Lindsay, a former national security staff member in President Bill Clinton’s administration. “If you don’t tell your story well, you start off with less support.”
In seeking to limit the commitment of U.S. forces and gain an international cast for military intervention in Libya, Obama has embarked on a complex strategy — one stirring criticism that he is endangering success with muddled goals.

‘Contradiction’

In his letter to Obama, Boehner challenged the president to explain the “contradiction” between his declaration that Muammar Qaddafi “must go” and repeated administration statements that regime change isn’t the aim of the military campaign. Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana, the senior Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the administration’s “ambiguity” may hurt the military operation and public support.
Lugar’s warning is reflected in a Gallup poll conducted March 21 that found support for the Libya mission is the lowest at the outset of a U.S. military action in the past three decades. Forty-seven percent of Americans approve of the Libya mission, while 37 percent disapprove. By comparison, 51 percent approved of the intervention in Kosovo in 1999 and 76 percent approved at the start of the war in Iraq in 2003.

And Donatella will be there too.

That house will be off the market on Monday after I win Mega tonight. I’ll but the house, spend millions of dollars on alcohol and hustlers and the rest I’ll waste.