To arm or not to arm, that is the question.

By now, I’d assume that all of you are intelligent people who take an interest in what’s going on in the world.  Thus, I also assume that you all know about the rebellion that’s going on in Libya.  And that big question that going through the President’s mind right now, is whether or not to arm the Libyan rebels.  At first sight, it sounds like a pretty darn good idea, after all these are common people who are fighting against an oppressive regime.  Sound familiar?  We, along with virtually ever other country that has been a colony or oppressed at some point in history by authoritarian governments, have pretty much done the same thing.   And since when has the US not jumped in to save ailing countries in their pursuit of democracy? 

And the downside, we may also be secretly supplying guns and whatnots to Al Qaeda.  Oh and because the French are doing it.  Supplying guns that is, so get your mind out of the gutter.  Though in retrospect they probably are doing it too, otherwise they wouldn’t be French.  Anyway and the UN says we can’t do it.  Yup, the UN says we can’t help downtrodden and oppressed people fight against their oppressors.  But we can authorize an air campaign, which in fact is exactly what it sounds like.  And fear of another Osama Bin Laden is preventing the US from taking any concrete action, despite the fact the lawmakers are pressing harder and harder for some form of involvement.  In fact despite the fact that the White House made a decision on military policy in Libya, no one seems to know what it is.  Guess we can do little more than site back and wait.