Questions Nobody Is Asking

The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.

Questions Nobody Is Asking
“Is panelization the future of residential construction?”–subheadline, Residential Architect Magazine, March 17

100%, the Lowest It’s Ever Been
“U.S. Death Rate Hits Record Low”–headline, WebMD.com, March 16

America Has a Leader, and Her Name Isn’t Obama
Politico reports that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton waged a “fierce internal battle to push President Barack Obama to join the fight to liberate Libya from Muammar Qadhafi.” Yesterday she succeeded:

[Mrs.] Clinton’s position was vindicated early Thursday evening when the United Nations Security Council–at the urging of the United States–approved a resolution authorizing “all necessary measures” to protect Libyan civilians, including a no-fly zone. U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice told reporters that such a move could involve direct attacks on pro-Qadhafi forces now bearing down on the rebel stronghold of Benghazi in eastern Libya.

The Washington Post reports that “the Libyan government declared an immediate cease-fire Friday in a bid to head off Western military intervention.” The U.S., Britain and France, all of which supported the resolution (five Security Council members, including Russia, Germany and Red China, abstained), “reacted cautiously to the declaration, saying they will judge Gaddafi by his actions.”

It does seem that Gadhafi, as we at The Wall Street Journal spell it, is more pliant than,say, Saddam Hussein was, in the face of a credible threat of force. Too bad the threat didn’t come a couple of weeks ago, before he recaptured most of the country. 

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