LIBYA UPDATE – AT 2:05 P.M. ET:  Remember Libya?  You go to the Mediterranean and hang a right around where Italy is.  You'll hit Libya sooner or later.  We have some kind of a policy involving Libya, and it keeps getting updated, the way you update your computer.  Except in Washington they actually have to think it through, rather than hitting a button.  This is new to the Obamans. 

But, there's been a new update:

WASHINGTON – The U.S. and NATO will continue military operations in Libya as long as Moammar Gadhafi keeps attacking his people, the White House said Friday as top U.S. officials met in Washington with leaders of the Libyan opposition.

Wait, wait, wait.  Didn't the last policy have something to do with Gadhafi leaving?  Or dying?  Or somethin'?

President Barack Obama's national security adviser, Tom Donilon, met at the White House with a delegation from the Libyan Transitional National Council, including top representative Mahmoud Jibril. While the U.S. stopped short of recognizing the Council as Libya's legitimate government, as France and Italy have done, the White House said in a statement following the meeting that the Council is a "credible interlocutor of the Libyan people."

Now, I hope the boys actually investigated these Libyan visitors from the east, and found out what they actually stand for, so we don't wind up with Iran II.  I don't think that's asking too much.

Obama did not meet with the opposition leaders.

Not a bad decision.  You don't want a photo with these chaps if they turn out to be the kind who think women should be kept in cages. 

We'll see.  So far our policy in Libya hasn't changed the government, and our policy about the brutal crackdown in Syria has been nothing more than a slap on the wrist.

Obama delivers a major speech on the Mideast this Wednesday.  The world waits.  Don't expect pearls.

May 14, 2011