libya and the US

Meredith Pollack
Libya Op Ed

In a country such as the United States where everyone has a different point of view on all things political, it is often easy for us to find unity in a common enemy. Currently, that enemy happens to be President Barrack Obama’s call for military action against Libya.
Newsmax.com focused their home page story on Obama’s inexperience with this kind of foreign policy move. This story focuses strongly on Obama’s weaknesses and the flaws of the plan for Libya. It offers little hope that this will be a success, and the whole story appears to pit the readers against Obama’s plan for Libya. Also, an Op Ed piece from the same news source goes into great detail about Obama receiving “he lowest approval rating of any American military operation in almost three decades.” The poll that was taken did investigate a lot of other pressing issues that delve back into our countries history of doing these types of invasions. As well as getting an approval rating for this military action, they took polls for their approval of the “invention of American troops in Haiti in September 1994, “ and “ the invasion of Grenada in October 1983.
”A New York Times blog by Mark Landler held the clear headline, “Obama Plans Libya Speech on Monday” The piece was under 200 words, quick and to the point. It seemingly was to appeal to the internet generation, who want their information quickly or they will stray from the story. He summed up that Obama would be holding a speech on Monday night that all are eagerly awaiting, due to public curiosity over what exactly is happening here. Landler alludes to Obama being flustered under this pressure, with a striking graph,
“he campaign has been dogged by friction over who should command the operation, with the United States handing off its lead role to NATO, and by uncertainty over its ultimate goal. Mr. Obama tried to answer some of these questions in a conference call Friday with a bipartisan group of lawmakers.”
An angle that most opinion pieces in the news have taken is to focus on the tension of any situation. Here it happens to be the peoples unrest about a decision they feel they cannot control. The unrest in the middle east is clearly running most news sources and creating a big interest for the citizens that read the news.