Poetry: Liberals and Neocons Join Together to Bomb the Snot Out of Libya

I am reading an open letter sent to the White House in February 2011 by the Foreign Policy Initiative demanding that Obama take action in Libya for the same of human rights. Notice how liberals are now hawks--you know the same people who were so critical of George W. Bush's war.

This war—let us call it by its right name, for once—will be remembered to a considerable extent as a war made by intellectuals, and cheered on by intellectuals. The main difference this time is that, particularly in the United States, these intellectuals largely come from the liberal rather than the conservative side...

What we are doing is enforcing a resolution that has a very clear set of goals, which is protecting the Libyan people, averting a humanitarian crisis, and setting up a no-fly zone. Obviously that involves kinetic military action, particularly on the front end...

In Bosnia, as in Libya a generation later, the standard-bearer of American power had a stark choice: It was either rescue or calamity. Benghazi would have been Barack Obama’s Srebrenica, the town that the powers had left to the mercy of [General] Ratko Mladic.

From that of the office, without which Obama were nothing;
From what I am determin’d to make four more years, even if I stand sole among men;
From my own voice resonant—singing the phallus of cruise missiles,
Singing the song of Obama's bombs.

Yes, bombs have more value for good when liberals drop them.

Oh, but it gets better. For years the left avoided Saddam Hussein's crimes against his own people. The letter continues:

To lend some perspective on how rapidly this military and diplomatic response came together, when people were being brutalized in Bosnia in the 1990s, it took the international community more than a year to intervene with air power to protect civilians.