Last night's speech

I am of the opinion that the President's speech about the US intervention along with the coalition forces was clear, reasonable and something I could support. What Obama failed to articulate however was the dissuasive power such an intervention might have in the eyes of other dictators in the Middle-East like the one in Syria and those elsewhere in the region that are sitting on substantial fossil fuel reserves.

Not doing anything in Libya would have embolden these bad guys and I wish that, to some degree, it might also disquiet dictators like Gbagbo and Mugabe, both of whom, unfortunately don't float on oil. It's clear that keeping our SUV tanks full at a reasonable price will always trump the need for defending human rights, but this we have known for a long time...