The American Spectator : The Spectacle Blog : Qaddafi's Time, and Assad's

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Max Boot writes that "it's only a matter of time" before Qaddafi falls. Well, yes, but the question is how much time. The rebellion has made some important advances, but every day that Qaddafi still rules Tripoli has consequences elsewhere.

US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice sent this tweet this evening:

Some countries using Libya as excuse to avoid the real issues we face in Syria - an argument that strains credulity, not to mention morality

What's interesting about this is that she could just as easily be talking about the debate within the Obama administration as the debate at the UN. As this BBC dispatch noted a couple weeks ago:

When Washington looks at Syria today, it fears a repeat; long drawn-out international pressure with no clear outcome.

There is no suggestion whatsoever that anyone would consider military intervention in Syria but the US and Europe, their hands full in Libya, are wary even of a purely diplomatic quagmire.

If the last dictator you called on to step down is still standing, there is some logic in being reluctant to call on another one to step down. While Rice has a point that this isn't a great excuse for inaction, certainly a resolution sanctioning the Assad regime would have more impact after Qaddafi falls than it would before. Let's hope Qaddafi's time runs out soon.

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Michael L. Hauschild| 6.9.11 @ 7:36AM

Qaddafi, Assade, or Weiner. Place your bets.

simon templar| 6.9.11 @ 9:11AM

Palin’s note is based on an article on the site Foreign Policy, which reveals that the administration recently threatened to veto the defense budget if the House included a provision that would limit what the U.S. could share with Russia about our missile defense system. The House passed the provision anyway.

I just read the above on the Blaze. If you think his foreign policy is insane and against American interest you aint seen nothin yet. If this story is true, why is this not front page news or at least why is it not being covered here at TAS? This is absolutely insane and treasonous.
THIS REALLY IS BECOMING A SICK NATION. The article was obsessed with her use of the 'WTF' in her texting not the story above. I think we need to stop talking about Weiner's dick and the use of WTF in texting.

Smirking Weasel| 6.9.11 @ 3:16PM

No, lets hope Qaddafi blows every NATO Hessian out of the sky, and slaughters the leeching chickenhawk 'rebels' who are the latest foreign filth to bleed the US dry.Lets press-gang slime like Boot and Rice into frontline service near Tripoli and let them get what they richly deserve. Qaddafi is truly the lesser evil from the true American perspective.