I can't figure out what it is.
BENGHAZI, Libya — President Barack Obama authorized limited military action against Libya Saturday, saying Moammar Gadhafi's continued assault on his own people left the U.S. and its international partners with no other choice. The Pentagon said it fired 110 cruise missiles at 20 targets along the Libyan coast.
Let me see...what's missing here? Oh yes! It's this: the US Congress hasn't authorized this military action aka war.
Surely we will soon be seeing the antiwar crowd out and about, blocking traffic and asserting that the president is waging an illegal war, a war-for-oil, etc.
I'm sure we will see this soon.
UPDATE: President Obama is in Brazil. He announced this strike against Gadhafi from the Brazilian capital. It appears that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is running things from Paris.
UPDATE: I knew we could count on the antiwar activists!
"Anti-war protesters arrested near White House"
The protesters, some shouting anti-war slogans and singing "We Shall Not Be Moved," were arrested after ignoring orders to move away from the gates of the White House. The demonstrators cheered loudly as Daniel Ellsberg, the former military analyst who in 1971 leaked the Pentagon's secret history of the Vietnam War that was later published in major newspapers, was arrested and led away by police.
And there were protests all around the country! New York, Chicago, San Francisco...
There's only one problem. The protesters were there to mark the eighth anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War, to call for complete withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan (told ya so) and to support Bradley Manning, the Army private who leaked classified documents to Wikileaks.
It has only been one day, however. I'm sure they'll get around to protesting the US intervention in Libya. I have faith!
