Friday, April 01, 2011

How do you solve a problem like Qaddafi?

Our fearless leader has a problem. He now has to mobilize the military against his good friend Moammar Kaddafi. Don't call it a war, call it a kenetic something-or-other... Kind of makes it sound like an X-Box accessory.

Regardless, we are now left with the question How do you solve a problem like Gaddafi?


With apologies to Rodgers and Hammerstein

How do you solve a problem like Gaddafi?

How do you get a dictator to step down?
How do you find a word that means Gadaffi?
Brutal, megalomaniacal, genocidal, a terrorist, a bully!

Many a Libyan would like to expel him
They’ll send him out to a foreign land
But how do you make him go?
The UN or NATO?
But not without a US no-fly errand

Oh, how do you solve a problem like Qaddafi?
How do they get him off their sand?

He’s the top man in Tripoli
Spells his name with a G (or a K or a Q)
A terrorist with fashion sense
He’s a dictator and magistrater
He’s a brute, he’s a thug, he’s a real baddie.

He’s shot down our jets
Been a general mid-east pest.
He was a colonel when he took over and hasn’t had a promotion since!
He’s a bad boy and hence,
Al Qaeda start riots
In protest.

How do you solve a problem like Gaddafi?
How do you get a dictator to step down?
How do you find a word that means Gadaffi?
Brutal, megalomaniacal, genocidal, a terrorist, a bully!

Many a Libyan would like to expel him
They’ll send him out to a foreign land
But how do you make him go?
The UN or NATO?
But not without a US no-fly errand

Oh, how do you solve a problem like Qaddafi?
How do they get him off their sand?

And if you want to dispute my rhyme scheme and cadence (I really don't even know what that is), here's a link to the song from the movie.




enjoy!