Once again the United States is fighting a war that is not ours and that we shouldn’t be fighting.

More than 100 missiles showered the country of Libya in a wrong approach to stop further violence and defend the rights of foreign citizens.

Apparently the purpose of this attack is to prevent Libyan Forces from murdering rebels and harming civilians caught between a fight that hopes to overthrow the government of Moammar Gadhafii, leader of that country.

I know that we all deserve respect, and absolutely no one has the right to take our lives away over our ideals, but this war can be seen as wrong in so many ways.

First of all we are now involved in a third fight against a Muslim country and many people may start to see it as a personal attack against Muslims, even when President Barack Obama’s father was Muslim.

I don’t agree with this, I think it might be a better guess to say that we are there for the money, because oh yeah, they have oil too.

We’re already told once that we were going to a war with Iraq because they had nuclear weapons that were never found.

At some point we ended up doubting whether we were there because of the weapons or the oil, and now thsi is going to happen in Libya.

As always, we are being told that we got involved to protect our fellow brothers, but what if that’s not the reason, what if what we really want is their resources?

It’s not surprising to hear that this is a fight against cruelty and has nothing to do with making money off their resources, but it’s hard to believe it.

More than once countries all over the world have been involved in fights and many people have been murdered without The United States getting involved.

A few years ago, there was a strong debate about whether the killings in Darfur; a country in Africa, should be considered genocide, but still, it never crossed our government’s mind to go to war against them.

I know why, because they didn’t have what Libya does, which is oil.

If we fight this war, we are once again going to be seen as a selfish, power-seeking nation that cares about nothing but oil.

I think this is something Obama cares about also and that was why we let the French launch the first missiles, to show people that we have what he calls a “limited role” in this war.Another reason why I think he is doing this because of  the 2012 elections.

Obama had always been seen as an anti-war candidate and that was one of the reasons why he was elected.

He even got the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Award, and now he is launching missiles to another country without congressional approval.

What I don’t understand is what he means by “limited” if we were among the first to launch the missiles and we are also partially, if not completely, directing the attack.

I just think it’s best for Obama to simply leave everything to France and Britain and focus on our economy for now.

President Obama has been in an official visit to South America to discuss our economic ties with countries there and he should focus on that.

But regardless of what decision he takes, I would like him to stand before our country and directly address the war.

President Obama needs to tell us if we can afford another war, because, after all, we are going to be paying for it.