OBAMA'S MAKE-IT-UP-AS-YOU-GO-ALONG LIBYA POLICY – AT 8:33 A.M. ET:  The Washington Post may be a liberal paper, but its editorial page has an integrity that a certain newspaper in New York might consider examining.  WaPo is scathing in its assessment of President Obama's non-policy:

EACH TIME he addresses the war in Libya, President Obama seems to contradict himself. After a meeting Wednesday with British Prime Minister David Cameron, the president was supportive of Mr. Cameron’s declaration that “the president and I agree that we should be turning up the heat in Libya.” “The more effective the coalition is in rallying all the resources that are available to it,” Mr. Obama said, the more “we’re going to be able to achieve our mission in a timely fashion.”

Yet Mr. Obama apparently remains unwilling to rally American resources that are readily available and that Britain and France have repeatedly requested. The allies have asked for the resumption of strike operations by U.S. warplanes that Mr. Obama pulled from the fight in early April. But immediately after acknowledging that more resources are needed, Mr. Obama talked down the prospect of “additional U.S. capabilities,” saying “there are going to be some inherent limitations to our airstrike operations.”

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What the allies are seeking is no secret: eight or so U.S. AC-130 and A-10 planes, weapons that exist only in the American arsenal and that are ideal for the close ground-support operations that are much needed in Libya.

But Mr. Obama isn't sending them.  His policy is baffling.

Mr. Obama may be correct in his assessment that “we have built enough momentum that as long as we sustain the course that we’re on,” Mr. Gaddafi will ultimately be forced from power. But the strain on British and French forces is growing, and the president appears to have no substantial reason to deny the allies’ request, other than to prove the ideological point that the United States need not lead every NATO military intervention. That point has been made. Now it is time to do what can be done to speed the end of Libya’s war.

COMMENT:  Either Obama is serious about the Libya mission, or he is not.  We get the feeling that he really hasn't decided.  Once again he projects weakness.  Allies are watching this train wreck.

All praise to the Washington Post's editorial page, which refuses to bow deeply to The One.  Unlike The New York Times's editorial page, it has maintained its credibility.

May 26, 2011