PJ: As Libyans exhibit a poster titled "The Fantastic 4" (http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/08/22/300927/photos-libyans-applaud-president-obama-and-international-allies-with-large-thank-you-sign/)which pictures and thanks President Obama, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, British Prime Minister David Cameron, and U.S. Ambassador the U.N. Susan Rice for their support, the US GOP finds fault with their President for...whatever...and the American news media seems to love to give them voice regardless of being called the 'lamestream' media by the far right.
When I read the US news I see so much criticism about Mr. Obama from the right that I really don't know how the republicans can label the mainstream media as liberal. People in the rest of the world have grown to appreciate the fresh new style with which Mr. Obama brought to international relations. The growing international respect for the US can be directly credited to the Obama administration...you'd think that American citizens would be proud.
The Economist
A score for Obama
Aug 22nd 2011, 15:26 by Lexington
I AM on holiday for three weeks in a faraway corner of Cornwall, but the momentous news from Libya has reached even here. Barack Obama received a lot of stick for his cautious approach to the uprising in Libya. Liberals traumatised by Iraq could not believe he had started another war. Republicans mocked him for "leading from behind". But with the collapse of Muammar Qaddafi's regime now in prospect, his critics ought to eat at least some of their words.
Like many others, I had strong misgivings (see here), for example, but the president remained supremely calm throughout and the speech he made in March (which we analysed here) looks pretty good in light of what has now happened. The intervention (Mr Obama notoriously refused to call it a war) could not have taken place without America's technological help; it was conducted mainly by allies; it had the blessing of the UN Security Council and the Arab League; and for those reasons it has generated almost no blowback from the Arab world. In short, a job well done - though I don't expect his Republican critics to be willing to admit this.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/lexington/2011/08/libya
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