The Messiah yielded to reality

A few weeks ago I agreed with the president's reticence to enter the conflict in Libya; for the wrong reasons, but reasons nonetheless, the president had avoided taking a more active role; even his Secretary of Defense, a republican, had cautioned about the dangers of the no fly zone.

Now the president goes back to Obama mode, going where the wind blows, yielding to pressure and, after all, being just one more American president. Despite his promise to be different, his purported despise for career politicians and conventional politics; there's our president, authorizing a "limited" participation in Libya's civil war, promising our presence won;t take more than a few days; which reminds me of yet another democrat promising the US's role in the Southeast Asia conflict would be limited. Hell broke loose and even members of his own party called for impeachment; for many, on both sides of the aisle, the president broke the law and exceeded the power bestowed upon him by the Constitution. He seems to be unable to do things to the fullest unless it is mingling with celebrities and asking for forgiveness abroad; even now. America is in a new war, and the president wants us to see it as a pick nick in northern Africa.

What is more, this administration seems to have been unable to reach a consensus on the "official" reasons to enter this war. Hillary Clinton says we're there because our European allies urged us to get in; the president, from Chile, always distant and aloof, said\ we had a moral obligation to be there since a brutal dictator in power for more than 30 years was brutalizing his own people; well...what will we do if the Saudi Arabian king resorts to brutality in order to hold on to power?. What is there's a rebellion in Cuba and Castro (Fidel or Raul) orders the military to crack down on the Cuban people?; don;t we have at least five examples of brutal dictators butchering their own people?. The messiah sounds more and more like a republican, only that he does not even talk to Congress; he gives his go ahead from Air Force One, always distant and aloof, even if it means putting American lives in harm's way.

I am just a poor black immigrant from Cuba; little do I know about the intricacies of power and politics in the world; I honestly do not know if our role in Libya is in our best interests or not; I have no solutions and no magic recipes; but I have enough brains to know the messiah has yielded to the powers that be, that he is, in his own impersonal, distant fashion, capable of starting a war just like any other former tenant at Pennsylvania 1600