US House Speaker troubled by Obama's Libya move

US House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner wrote to President Barack Obama on Wednesday to say he is "troubled" that US military resources were committed to Libya without clearly defining the mission there.

In the letter, a copy of which was released to the media by Boehner's aides, the Republican speaker asked Obama, a Democrat, to provide a clear assessment of the mission in Libya to both "the American people and Congress." Boehner said that the UN Security Council resolution authorizing military intervention in Libya "does not substitute for a US political and military strategy." (Reuters)