Sunday, March 27, 2011
Muammar al-Gaddafi (AP Photo: Ricardo De Luca)
History has demonstrated repeatedly that when evil is not confronted, it can have devastating results, writes conservative commentator Bill O’Reilly in supporting President Barack Obama’s decision to use military force against Libya.
Good men don’t stand idly by when a dictator like Muammar al-Gadaffi is slaughtering human beings. O’Reilly says Obama (“after waffling around for weeks”) did the right thing to order U.S. planes and missiles to attack Gadaffi’s forces which were on the verge of wiping out the opposition.
O’Reilly singles out for criticism leaders on the left and the right for criticizing Obama’s decision to act, including Michael Moore, Ralph Nader, Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan. In response to Buchanan’s questioning American intervention that merely stops “Arabs from killing Arabs,” O’Reilly writes that the reason was to “prevent a massacre.”
“This is not a complicated issue,” he concludes. “If America is, indeed, a noble country, it should act to save lives when it can. That doesn’t mean we get bogged down in quagmires like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam again, but when quick, decisive action can defeat evil, it should be taken.”
-Noel Brinkerhoff
The Triumphant of Evil (Bill O’Reilly)
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