Operation OdD is UN-necessary

03-20-2011

On March 19 the American military joined a United Nations backed coalition, in what is being called “Operation Odyssey Dawn” (I refer to it as “Operation OdD” or simply “OdD”). According to the U.S. Department of Defense OdD is “to enforce U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973 to protect the Libyan people from the country’s ruler. The goal of the military coalition is to prevent further attacks by regime forces on Libyan citizens, officials said, adding that the coalition also wants to degrade the ability of Moammar Gadhafi’s regime to resist a no-fly zone being implemented... The United Kingdom, France, Italy and Canada already have announced that they are part of the coalition. Officials expect Arab countries will publicly announce their participation soon.” Not only is this military action unconstitutional, as are the “wars” in Iraq & Afghanistan, it is also unnecessary. Potential Presidential candidate R. Lee Wrights says, “For an American president to initiate an attack on a n