Even as Libyan dictator Moammar Ghaddafi mercilessly slaughters his own people, the Obama administration has said surprisingly little to condemn the regime or demand changes. Why such a different response than we saw to the unrest in Egypt? What should be the U.S. response? We discuss it all with K.T. McFarland, a Pentagon official in the Reagan administration. She is now a national security analyst with the Fox News Channel.
Archives for February 22, 2011
Somali Pirates Strike Again
On Tuesday, we learned that Somali pirates killed four Americans aboard a yacht the pirates seized from the two couples. So what is being done about the piracy problem? How bad is the problem? What would work? And what won’t work? We discuss it all with Martin Murphy, author of “Somalia, the New Barbary?: Piracy and Islam in the Horn of Africa”. He is also a visiting fellow at the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies at King’s College in London.
Three Martini Lunch 2/22/11
Greg Corombos and National Review’s Jim Geraghty celebrate the GOP having at least a small chance to win the open Senate seat in New Mexico. They also denounce Libya’s brutal crackdown on protesters and President Obama’s pathetic response to the crisis. And they get some more sage wisdom from a Democratic state senator in Wisconsin.