Have you ever taken your car to a garage, having been told it should only take a couple of hours, and been stuck without your car for several days?

Well, it looks like President Barack Hussein Obama sold us a lemon.

Secretary of Defense Gates was asked on ABC’s “This Week” by Anchor Jake Tapper, subbing for the feckless Christine Amanpour, if there will be a U.S. military commitment in Libya until year’s end, Gates replied:

I don’t think anybody knows the answer to that.

The fact that everyone’s covering up faster than a garage that doesn’t know how to fix your car, has Congress up in arms (no pun intended,…well, maybe). They want to hear some sort of logical explanation from the president and his administration as to why America is in the middle of another Muslim conflict and what the endgame is.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Defense Secretary Gates told anyone who would listen yesterday that the objective was limited to protecting civilians, even as they hoped (and prayed) that the pressure of United Nations international penalties and isolation might be able to make Kadhafi’s remaining loyalists and cause the nutjob to be thrown out of power.

Gates said on NBC’s “Meet The Press.”

One should not underestimate the possibility of the regime itself cracking.

One Libyan ex-patriot is watching in anticipation.

Dr. Abdulmonem Hresha, a prominent leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, watched Kadhafi hang a political opponent at age 10. The Libyan Government made him and his classmates go watch the execution in order to scare them into submission.

He now lives in London, having taught at Tripoli University, and having escaped to Canada.  Dr. Hresha believes that the Muslim Brotherhood could become an important player in a post-Kadhafi environment, as it has in Egypt and Tunisia.

According to Hresha, the West has nothing to fear from the Muslim Brotherhood in Libya.

Yep.  I’m sure Anwar Sadat would agree about how harmless The Muslim Brotherhood is…if you guys had not murdered him.

I’ve lived for many years in Canada and the UK, and that’s exactly the political system that we want.

Hresha says that if his organization forms a political party, it would seek to legislate according to Koranic principles (aka Sharia Law).

Why shouldn’t we be able to press our point of view — we are humans too.

Hresha said the Libyan Muslim Brotherhood welcomes airstrikes in Libya:

I salute and am very grateful to the Americans, French and British governments for stopping the killing. I will never forget this.

Hresha said he hopes a post-Kadhafi Libya will be a close friend to the West.

We’ve been working secretly till this moment.

Meanwhile, unrest continues in Syria  as the Middle East implodes.

In interviews concerning Syria, Obama’s administration claims that the uprising appears to be widespread, involving different religious groups in southern and coastal regions of Syria, including Sunni Muslims usually loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.

American officials are torn between the fear that Syria will turn on Israel and Lebanon, and the hope that this unrest will work in America’s favor.

61 people were confirmed killed by security forces on Saturday, as Syria’s status remains uncertain.

In an appearance on CBS’ Face The Nation, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the U.S. will not intervene in Syria as we have in Lybia.

Jordan is experiencing civil unrest as well.  However, King Abdullah II appears to have things under control…at the moment.

Israel is preparing to defend itself.  Per google.com:

Israel on Sunday stationed the first batteries of its “Iron Dome” short-range missile defence system in the south of the country, but stressed the initial deployment was experimental.

The unique multi-million dollar system was stationed outside the southern city of Beersheva, days after it was hit by several rockets fired from the Gaza Strip amid a rise in tensions and tit-for-tat violence.

But officials were quick to point out that the system, the first of its kind in the world, could not yet provide complete protection for the hundreds of rockets fired from Gaza into southern Israel.

“Israel has been under missile threat for 20 years, since the (1991) Gulf War. I do not want to foster the illusion that Iron Dome, which we are deploying today for the first time, will provide a complete or comprehensive answer,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet.

“Iron Dome is still in the experimental stage and we do not have the possibility of deploying batteries to protect every home, school, base and installation.”

So far, Israel has acquired just two batteries and no decision has been made yet on where to deploy the second unit.

So, with current regimes on the verge of falling in the Middle East and the Muslim Brotherhood rising, United States President Barack Hussein Obama takes the National Stage at 6:30 p.m. Central in an attempt to assure Americans that he is on top of the situation, and that there was a logical reason that he bypassed Congress and involved us in an International Coalition of the Unwilling, carrying on a Kinetic Military Action with all of the coordination and advance planning of a Three Stooges Comedy.

Obama said that the Libyan action was going to take days, now it is going to take months.  Is his planned endgame, the same as Dr. Hresha’s?  After all, Obama’s State Department called the Muslim Brotherhood, a secular organization. 

I don’t know, but I have a bad feeling as to how this is all going to turn out.