SNAKE BIT

President Obama must feel snake bit. First he opens up drilling on the Atlantic shelf of the U.S. and then BP screws it up by creating a disaster in the Gulf. Then he seems to seriously consider enlarging the U.S. nuclear power capabilities, and nature screws it up by the Japan super earthquake of 2011.

I think that it was criticism of our president for not taking sides earlier in the Egypt rebellion that got him to say that Qaddafi must go. And the Tunisian uprising was successful also. And now it looks like Qaddafi may stay. As George Will has said, President Obama is doing as well as can be expected in a situation over which he has no control. Still I have this peculiar feeling that "Here We Go Again." I hope it is wrong.

I recall the Hungarian uprising of 1958 that we helped foment. When the Soviets came in to quell the uprising, I was sure it would be nuclear war. After all, we had urged them to do it. We couldn't abandon them now. I never thought that President Eisenhower would just say something like, "Too bad, boys" and abandon them to their fate. Perhaps Libya should be Hungarian Uprising II with the U.S. doing an Eisenhower.