Sunday evening, the Drudge Report featured a trio of headlines: “U.K. to send team of spies to help oust Gadhafi”; “British Army readies for mission at 24 hours notice”; and “Obama goes golfing.” Let me offer a sound political axiom for the ages: Any and all complaints about the president golfing too much are presumptively wrong. In fact, if President Obama yields to growing pressure for “limited” military engagement in Libya, we may end up wishing he’d spent more time hitting the links.
Drudge is hardly alone in carping about Obama’s reluctance to intervene. Unchastened by their role in the Iraq debacle, Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., recently advocated arming the rebels and forcibly grounding Libyan planes. And on CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., called for “cratering Libyan airports and runways” while simultaneously insisting that “the last thing we want to think about is any kind of military intervention.” (Figure that one out.)
