New York Times Editorial: "Stopping Qaddafi"

"Stopping Qaddafi"

This New York Times editorial, "Stopping Qaddafi," explains the newspaper's stance that the United States and other countries need to quickly get involved in the issue in Libya. The article offers a short introductory paragraph on what is going on--Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi is soon going to kill hundreds or thousands of Libyans because it is the only way he knows to keep power.

The New York Time's opinion is that we need to get involved soon and should have already done something. The newspaper lists ways of how we can stop Qaddafi, such as creating no fly zones and stopping military communication. They close the editorial with what I think is a strong way to summarize and show just what they intend to communicate: "The longer the world temporizes, the more people die." I think that The New York Times wants to inform the public and persuade those with power to get involved.

At one point, they seem to be contradictory when they say that we have waited too long to take action but then say that it was right of Obama to wait since Americans were still in Libya and it was dangerous to get involved. I agree that we should react soon to the situation, but there wasn't really anything to be done several days before when Americans were there and already at risk.

The New York Times offers their mainly clear view that we are behind on "Stopping Qaddafi," and offers many ways this can be done. Overall, I think that they nicely present the issue, their stance, and ways that we need to solve this before it is too late.

Current Health Care Struggles

McConnell: We'll Keep Fighting Health Care Law Whether it's Popular or Not
This is a short article from CBS of how Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans continue to work hard to keep the health care bill from passing. McConnell claims "we are not about to retreat." He says that it's unconstitutional to force everyone to buy health care.

This is a good article to read to get an idea of some of what is going on in health care. The word "fighting" in the title I think sums up what is going on right now. Although everyone is going to have different opinions on health care, we are not so different that we can't communicate and work things out. There isn't really an option for compromise on some issues, but I think we could compromise some on health care. I think health care is a right to anyone who will take it, which I think would be everyone. If people don't want health care though, then they shouldn't be forced to have it. This is my opinion and of course everyone wants to "win," but I think that we should all be represented in this since government will never be ideal for everyone.