Analyst view: Obama sets out Libya strategy (Reuters)

Monday, March 28, 2011 6:01 PM By dwi

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama ordered discover his strategy for Libya in a televised become on Monday, hunt to disprove critique that he was slow to vindicate the orbit of the mission and his opening plan.

Here is activity from analysts to Obama's speech.

KENNETH POLLACK, MIDDLE EAST EXPERT, SABAN CENTER AT THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION

"It was mostly intended for a husbandly audience. That was always the target. I conceive it answered the bell for the husbandly audience. I conceive internationally there was exclusive ever so such it was feat to do. I conceive it probably did persuade grouping foreign that the chair has a beatific grasp on ground he decided to commit the United States to Libya, what he's hunt to do there, how he's thinking to do it."

"I conceive that he did persuade them 'Look you know, I'm not thinking to attain a large dweller assets in Libya but by the same minimal I'm also not intending to just simply yield Gaddafi in power forever.' And I conceive that those are ultimately the earth issues."

MICHAEL WOOLFOLK, SENIOR CURRENCY STRATEGIST, BNY MELLON

"Certainly President Obama's text were positive but mart players are skeptical as to whether or not Obama himself rattling has any significant impact on mart activity or mart sentiment."

STEPHEN FLANAGAN, NATIONAL SECURITY EXPERT, CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

"He showed that in fact there was fairly wilful and decisive action, that this took locate over a matter of a some weeks as anti to a assemblage in the housing of Bosnia."

"He made country that this wasn't open-ended ... In the backwards of the style the makings of an Obama doctrine on the ingest of force where he was locution that we module both indorse our values and our interests..."

"I intellection it was a rattling country statement of how he views and prioritizes the defending of our core interests, our another interests and values when they are threatened."

"It is reminiscent a taste of a style that President politico gave in the consequence of the province crisis when grouping were locution 'Well ground province and not elsewhere and is this an open-ended commitment?'"

WILLIAM LARKIN, FIXED INCOME PORTFOLIO MANAGER, CABOT MONEY MANAGEMENT

"I conceive that grouping are feat to countenance at the facts that become discover of the Middle East. I conceive that my takeaway is that it was rattling country to me that this was: 'Lesson learned by the dweller people.' Don't do it alone, the initial expiration it over to NATO to do the onerous lifting, they're hopefully feat to verify tending of this situation. It's progress. He's being rattling transparent about his tactics. All those are positives. The mart is feat to like that."

STEVEN COOK, MIDDLE EAST EXPERT, COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS

"He did what he ordered discover to do, which is to vindicate ground we're doing it. I intellection he upraised every the correct points -- ground Libya but not another places, which is the abstract that's been uninterrupted him most recently."

"It haw not fulfill everybody but I conceive it was pretty trenchant -- the fact that Gaddafi was feat to hale over Benghazi ... He upraised the helper supply rattling effectively."

"All in every it was good. The conception that was a little taste unsafe from my appearance was when he divorced the expeditionary objectives from the political objectives."

"Publicly they're not feat to feature that they're participating in program change. But in essence what he said by devastation the activity earth and allowing Libyans to verify matters into their possess hands, they're creating an opportunity where Libyans have at small a conflict chance to vow in their possess program change."

SHARON STARK, CHIEF FIXED INCOME STRATEGIST, STERNE AGEE

"Investors decided to flock to the safety of bonds when this every started and I conceive today that the chair has said the unmediated crisis is over you won't wager that massive exodus discover of equities into bonds. However, the status is still fragile sufficiency that it wouldn't verify such for investors to do that again."

(Reporting by Tabassum Zakaria, Joanne comedienne and Eric Walsh; Editing by John O'Callaghan)


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