It's amusing, but characteristic, that it doesn't at all occur to Anne Marie Slaughter to include the price tag in her arguments for a "no fly" zone over Libya.
It's even more comical, and even more characteristic, that Michael Barone goes after Obama for doing nothing on Libya and for doing nothing on the budget, without bothering to consider whether or not the "we can't afford it" rhetoric as applied to helping Americans obtain home heating oil might also be applied to major military escapades abroad.
On any other issue involving the government spending money, we're "broke." When it comes to exploding things on top of foreigners... we're rich again!
We knew that already, of course. But it's still fun to be reminded yet once more that literally the only thing our wise and benificent ruling elites have no especial moral objection to spending money on, is reckless war. Indeed, reckless war is good, and you are a bad person if you oppose it.
Likewise, you are a bad person if you think it would be a good idea to help Americans buy home heating oil.
You bastard.