OK, I accept that I'm nobody and I can't do anything but write in a blog that less than a multitude read. But for the record, I don't get what Obama is doing in Libya.

First, with all the talk about budget cutting, how much is this costing? And why Libya now? Why not Bahrain or Yemen or even Ivory Coast? "Civilians" are being killed there.

There must be a lot of behind the scenes things that are going on which the average person like me doesn't know about, and that makes it a little difficult to make judgments about what is going on, but from my vantage point, this action in Libya is going to end up with unintended consequences that aren't good.

Obama should have consulted with congress and the public more before getting us into another war. And what is so ironic is that it is only weeks after his Sec. of Defense said that we should have our head examined to get into another war in that part of the world.

No doubt Khaddafi is a jerk and a killer. But the world runs on such thugs unfortunately. I do not think Obama has explained why this has to be done now so quickly that the public and congress can't be more fully briefed. This is a military action where we are taking lives and destroying properties in another country. That means they will feel justified now in striking back at us, and no doubt they will try. I don't think Obama has thought this out well, and that is disappointing. He promised he would talk to other countries, but it doesn't appear that he tried talking to Khaddafi.

His statements of a couple weeks ago when he first said that Khaddafi has to go, which I have already written I thought were premature, boxed him into a corner where in order to maintain his macho and that of the US got to be on the line, which is unfortunate. A war shouldn't be fought over a "mano to mano" type of conflict.