Obama gears up for hard sell on Libya

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Source: Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President Barack Obama prepared Monday to give a prime-time address to the nation aimed at winning the support of a war-weary American public for the military intervention in Libya.

After inheriting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning president finds himself embroiled in yet another conflict, this time one of his own choosing and one that many at home are not convinced by.

In his address at 7:30 pm (2330 GMT) from the National Defense University in Washington, Obama must win over a largely skeptical public preoccupied by domestic economic concerns and unclear what the Libya endgame is.

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Lawmakers, including many from Obama's own Democratic Party, are angry that Congress was not consulted before troops were deployed and have raised concerns that the Libya mission is ill-defined and the exit strategy unclear.



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President Barack Obama tonight plans to give the American people his justification for intervening in Libya and how it fits in with broader U.S. interests in the region as he faces questions from Congress and skepticism from the public.

With the U.S. now engaged in a third military action in a Muslim country, Obama is being challenged to show that his goals in Libya are achievable and won’t lead to a protracted commitment of troops and money.

Obama’s advisers stressed that by taking action in Libya, the president isn’t setting a policy for U.S. involvement in uprisings that have spread across North African and Middle Eastern countries including Yemen, Jordan, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Syria and Bahrain.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-28/obama-confronts-congressional-questions-public-skepticism-in-libya-speech.html