Why Libya?

[Mr Khan]

HappySqurriel said:

Rath said:

HappySqurriel said:

Being that every reason to "go to war" in Libya could also be used to justify "going to war" in several other countries in the region, about the only reason I can think of that this action was really taken is that the press coverage in Libya was starting to reflect very poorly on the current administration.

In which other country was a massacre of the scale that was likely to be seen in Benghazi imminent? While in other countries in the region brutal use of force has been used Libya was clearly on a different scale and clearly a completely different situation. I'm pretty sure you keep up with the news well enough to realise this so you seem to be being disingenuous just for an excuse to criticise Obama.

It is actually because I pay attention to the news from so many sources that I believe the military action in Libya was driven entirely by politics. The Obama administration didn`t have any coherent position or policy in place until more moderate and Democrat friendly press and pundits started to become increasingly critical of Obama’s mishandling of the uprising in Libya. 

Of course: it's a public relations thing: how would it look if we let these people, hungry for Democracy (though i'll grant dib8rman's point about the brand of democracy they want not being congruous with our ideals) get slaughtered at the hands of a professed enemy of America, when we could easily have prevented it?