The United Nations has given the go-ahead to begin military action against crazy Libyan leader Muammar Kadhafi.  His threat to storm the rebel stronghold of Benghazi overnight, showing “no mercy, no pity.”, appears to have been the last straw.

Kadhafi announced in a radio address:

We will come, zenga, zenga. House by house, room by room.

As he readied his offensive, Al Jazeera television was showing thousands of Benghazi residents in a central square celebrating the U.N. vote, waving anti-Kadhafi tri-color flags and yelling chants of defiance aimed at their tormentor, of four decades. Fireworks could be seen in the skies about the city.

The madman, Kadhafi, had previously told the citizens of Libya that only those who lay down their arms would be spared the vengeance that he was going to exact on ‘rats and dogs’.

Kadhifi said:

It’s over. The issue has been decided. We are coming tonight…We will find you in your closets.

We will have no mercy and no pity.

The U.N. Security Council’s resolution, which they passed yesterday, calls for a no-fly zone to around 100 km (60 miles) from Benghazi. The resolution also calls for “all necessary measures” (military action) to protect civilians against Kadhafi’s thugs.

However, the flame of Revolution is very close to being extinquished.

According to Libyans, Kadhafi’s air force launched three air raids on the city of 670,000 yesterday. There has also been horrendous ground fighting along the Mediterranean coastal road.

France’s diplomants have announced that the UN attack could come within hours, and may include France, Britain and possibly the United States and one or more Arab states. However, a U.S. military official said no immediate U.S. action was expected following the vote.

Only five of the UN Security Coucil’s fifteen members refused to vote for the attack on Libya. Russia, China and Germany were among the five that refused to vote for the resolution. There were no votes against the resolution, which was co-sponsored by France, Britain, Lebanon and the United States.

According to Rebel National Council head Mustafa Abdel Jalil, Al Jazeera television air strikes are essential in stopping Kadhafi.

We stand on firm ground. We will not be intimidated by these lies and claims… We will not settle for anything but liberation from this regime.

Nobody knows if Kadhafi was just running off at the mouth, or if he was serious in his threat to take over the city.  However, the UN could not take that chance.

A lot of Arabs feel that if Kadhafi were to take the day, it would be a severe blow against “pro-democracy” (their words) movements that have unseated the governments in Tunisia and Egypt and started huge protests in Bahrain, Yemen and elsewhere.

After the vote, Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., proclaimed that the resolution sends a “strong message” to Kadhafi that the violence against his own people must stop:

This resolution was designed to do two important things. Protect civilians as well as strengthen the pressure on the Kadhafi regime through a substantial tightening of sanctions.

Excuse me, Ma’am.  Do you and your boss actually think that a resolution is going to scare a madman?  You had better be prepared to back it up.

Compare and Contrast:

April 5, 1986 – The discotheque “La Belle” in West Berlin, a hangout for US troops, is bombed. Two people are killed, and more than 200 are injured. The CIA suspects Libya is behind the plot.

April 14, 1986 – US war planes bomb military bases in Libya, including the barracks of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi. Two of Kadhafi’s sons are injured. A girl whom he claims was his adopted daughter is killed.

March 17, 2011 – 31 days after a revolution to overthrow the madman, Moammar Kadhafi, begins, President Barack Hussein Obama backs a UN resolution to establish a “no-fly” zone is Libya.

Perhaps Obama’s reluctance is due to the fact that Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s spiritual adviser for more than 23 years, is “buds” with the madman, Kadhafi.

Or, perhaps, it’s because the Libyan dictator also has financed and strongly supported the Nation of Islam and its leader, Louis Farrakhan, another one of Obama Chicago “friends”.

You know, like Bomber Bill Ayers, “just a guy in the neighborhood”.

Jeremiah Wright, traveled with Farrakhan to visit Gadhafi in 1984, Obama’s former Pastor and Mentor said about the trip:

When [Obama’s] enemies find out that in 1984 I went to Tripoli to visit [Gadhafi] with Farrakhan, a lot of his Jewish support will dry up quicker than a snowball in hell.”

Farrakhan, a close friend and associate of Wright, has been financed by Kadhafi, including a $5 million interest-free loan in 1985.

Later that year, Kadhafi spoke by satellite to Farrakhan’s Saviour’s Day Convention in Chicago.

Whatever the reason, Obama’s milksoppy dithering, on foreign and domestic issues, sends a horrible message to our enemies.  The only deterrent that our enemies understand is the iron will of a strong American President.

And, right now, they’re grinning like a bunch of Cheshire Cats.