On Obama’s Poor Response to Libya

Published February 24, 2011 3:45pm ET



The Washington Post has a hard-hitting editorial today, taking the president to task for being the “last to speak up on Libya.” “Once again, an Arab dictator is employing criminal violence in a desperate effort to remain in power – and once again, the Obama administration has been slow to find its voice,” the editors at the Post write. “This time, the tyrant is one of the Middle East’s most evil men – Moammar Gaddafi, whose regime has staged spectacular terrorist attacks against Americans in addition to brutalizing its own people. Having apparently lost control of most of the country, Mr. Gaddafi has unleashed an orgy of bloodshed in the capital, Tripoli, using foreign mercenaries and aircraft to attack his own people.”

Indeed, the New York Times today reports on a most recent evil in Libya:

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