This one-liner from Leno’s monologue is a pretty good summary of where things stand in North Africa.
According to Newsweek, 73 percent of Americans can’t say why we fought the Cold War. This sounds bad until you consider that no one in the White House can tell us why we’re fighting the Libya war.
Depending on the day of the week, or hour of the day, we’re there to protect civilians, promote democracy, impose regime change, or fight terrorism. Give the White House enough time and maybe they’ll explain why intervening in another Muslim nation stops global warming or saves baby seals.
well, capitalism caused water to disappear on planet Mars so perhaps we (the West lead by hawkish Sarko) are trying to prevent the same thing happening for oil on planet Gaddafi. Or something… Ask Chavez, he always gets it.