Where Is The Outrage?

Late last week the U.S. began launching missles into Libya from our battleships.  This is part of a NATO effort to bring down Ghadaffi and his kin who have been ruling this one-horse country since, well a very long time.  Ghadaffi, you will recall, is a crazy man who had attacked innocent Americans and killed some of our service men while they slept in their barracks at night during the 80's.  The late and great President Reagan responded with a wake-up call to his home one morning.  Unfortunately, he survived while one of his children perished.  This move by our nation's greatest President in modern time served to put Ghadaffi in his place.  He quickly learned that the American's were not to be messed with; and he left us alone from that point forward.

Lately, as Ghadaffi, and much of the world learns that we are not the strong nation we once were, he has come back out of his cacoon and began to flutter his wings. Yes, he has done some pretty bad things and yes, he has made some inflammatory statements. Yet he has not built up the guts to tempt fate by messing with us again.  Not yet anyway.  Perhaps this weekends attack will serve as a reminder of the past and he will once again go into his shell. That is, unless this morning's Carter-esqe crash of a military plan starts him thinking that maybe we are not as strong as we once were; and frankly, we are not!

Now about this attack on Libya...I have been looking for the protesters, the rage from the media, the angry opponents shouting, "illegal war" and "no blood for oil", but the voices appear to be silent.  I may have been away from the television and radio for a while and may have missed it, but is there justification for this attack that we did not have in Iraq?  Let me do some math - We sold Iraq chemical weapons and Saddam threatened to use them against us.  Saddam was killing his people; slaughtering them and burying them in mass graves.  Saddam was threatening Kuwait and Israel and overall peace in the middle east (if there is such a thing).  Saddam violated or ignored 16 (give or take) UN resolutions which offered him more than enough opportunity to come clean and disclose all that he was hiding.  So we attacked and liberated the country.

In Libya, another crazy man is essentially fighting a civil war with his own people - and a few outsiders here and there.  He is not threatening to take over anyone elses country and he is not launching missles against detractor nations.  He is basically fighting for his life, a fight which he will eventually lose on his own.  However, we and others felt the need to attack the country in an effort to liberate them from themselves, in the name of NATO.  This is akin to NATO launching an attack against a Tea Party Rally in D.C. - people in their own country, protesting against the leadership of their own country.  Though we are sending our soldiers to fight and die, nobody appears to be bothered as they were during the Iraq war.

If anyone still does not believe there is a double standard in our country, it is time to pull your head out of the sand.  This is one attack that our soldiers should have been watching from their flat screens while enjoying dinner with their families.  Where are the protesters?  Where are the angry mobs?  Where is the outrage?