backdoor view: Here are some links for the Libyan War.

News reports first disclosed in the New York Times said that Ms. Power, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton helped overrule reluctant defense and military leaders in persuading Mr. Obama to launch military operations against Col. Gadhafi’s forces under the guise of protecting civilians from those forces.

(Obama's) Defense Secretary: Libya Did Not Pose Threat to U.S., Was Not 'Vital National Interest' to Intervene (March 27, 2011)

'Al-Qaeda snatched missiles' in Libya

Libyan rebel commander admits his fighters have al-Qaeda links

US hands command of Libya air strategy to senior female officer

Obama's Women Advisers Pushed War Against Libya

Samantha Power (Special Assistant to the President) Brings Activist Role Inside to Help Persuade Obama on Libya

Susan Rice (Obama UN Ambassador): A Voice for Intervention

Obama Takes Hard Line With Libya After Shift by Hillary Clinton (Obama Secretary of State)

If we empower them (Libyan mujahideen), we will eventually rue the day.

Ronald Reagan's Thoughts in quotes

"Man is not free unless government is limited."

"Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty."

“The cultural environment for a human holocaust is present whenever any society can be misled into defining individuals as less than human and therefore devoid of value and respect.”

"Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free and should therefore be slaves. Likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide."

"I notice that all those people who favor abortion have already been born."

"We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added."

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."

"Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence."

"Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged."

"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."

"The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much."

"Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15."

"I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'."

"Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

"Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure."

"They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong."

"Don't be afraid to see what you see." Ronald Reagan