Outside the Beltway

One week in to Operation Odyssey Down, public opinion is, to put it as nicely as possibly, ambivalent.

President Obama’s grand coalition against Libya is a lot less than meets the eye.

The Libyan rebels probably aren’t strong enough to defeat Gaddafi on their own, and the no-fly zone isn’t going to be enough either. Which means this operation is going to be far more extensive than President Obama is willing to admit publicly.

The public, and Congress, are skeptical of the mission in Libya, and the reason for that is because the President has failed to tell us exactly why we’re there and what we’ll be doing.

It has become quite apparent that neither the White House nor our coalition partners have any idea what the path to an endgame in Libya even looks like. That’s not good.

U.S. officials are making clear that the current mission in Libya may not lead to the end of Muammar Gaddafi’s rule. If that’s the case, then why are we there in the first place?

The Obama Administration is asking the U.N. Security Council to authorize direct military intervention in Libya. The question is, why now?

Egypt entered a second day of chaos with all signs pointing to things getting worse before they get better.

Let’s keep our eye on the ball, people.

Should the UN expand the number of permanent Security Council members?

If the United Nations has its way, E.T. will be meeting an obscure Malaysian astrophysicists if he arrives.

An obscure U.N. human rights report has become the latest political outrage of the day in the battle over Arizona’s controversial immigration law.