Newt Gingrich’s Libya ‘flip-flop’: What was he thinking? (The Week)
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New York – Gingrich hammered President Obama earlier this month for not intervening in Libya. Now he’s griping, “I would not have intervened.” Huh?
Former House speaker and current GOP presidential aspirant Newt Gingrich has done a “complete flip-flop” on his Libya position, says George Zornick at ThinkProgress. On March 7, he told Fox News that, were he president, he would unilaterally “exercise a no-fly zone this evening,” on the grounds that “we think that slaughtering your own citizens is unacceptable.” After President Obama did just that a couple weeks later, Gingrich slammed him, telling NBC, “I would not have intervened,” especially not using “American and European forces.” Gingrich has since tried to explain the discrepancy in a Facebook post. Is this cynical politics at its worst, or just a minor misstep?
He just has loose lips: Gingrich stuck his foot in his mouth, and it’s hardly the first time,
