Rick Lowe
Rex Murphy, a Canadian author among other things offers commentary weekly on CBC TV’s The National, and is host of CBC Radio’s Cross Country Checkup, but this article for Full Comment at Canada's National Post is just brilliant.
Here's a snippet to whet your appetite.
"Also, the intervention was to last, in Mr. Obama’s own words, “days, not weeks.” It also gave us what is perhaps the most brilliant evasion that the White House, through its mouthpieces, has ever offered an inquiring world: that the President was “leading from behind.” Leading from behind — there’s a winner, a tactical novelty that will surely earn Mr. Obama a place beside Clausewitz and Sherman.
"From the beginning, of course, all knew it would be awkward for Mr. Obama to go to war. He is, after all, a Nobel Peace medallist. And three wars at once is a little crowded even for the myopic Nobel committee. It was instead, said the spokespeople, “a kinetic military action.” Somewhere Orwell, rotating in his dusty vault, is weeping.
Read the entire Full Comment titled Rex Murphy: Libya is a war, regardless of the rhetoric here…
