Being President is Hard.

It's been fun the last day or two, watching proggies of various stripes get themselves all worked up over the Bombing of Libya. Glenn Reynolds is having a grand time granting Andrew Sullivan the title he has so eminently deserved. But the outraged proggies may have a point.

Does anyone have any notion of what it is we're DOING in Libya? Are we merely levelliing the playing field? Or are we ousting Khadaffi? To what end? By what means?

Say what you will about Bush, but he made it plenty clear in the build-up to Afghanistan and Iraq what we were doing and why. He made it clear to Congress, and he made it clear to the American people. For that matter, when Reagan bombed Libya back in '86, he went on television and told us why.

Obama has done none of that. So I don't blame the proggies for being bent out of shape, even if I do wonder why they expected a one-term junior senator with no executive experience to handle the Presidency better.