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| 2012-01-28 |
| Each day that goes by gives the White House more reason to regret its Libyan adventure. The overthrow of Gaddafi was a good thing, but from both the humanitarian and strategic points of view, nothing has changed. The war continues to look at best like a diversion, at worst as if the US fell for a cynical French ploy to get oil in a way that damaged our long term strategic interests. Scattered reports of torture in Libyan jails and unrest in Libyan towns are beginning to coalesce into a picture of the exciting new reality created by last year’s humanitarian war-to-protect. If Amnesty International knows what it is talking about, Libyans are being “tortured to death” by the people we saved from Gaddafi and installed in power. Surprisingly, the Wilsonian hawks who gave us this inspiring policy haven’t yet sent a new barrage of airstrikes to stop the new round of brutality and bloodshed. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #4 The 2 meaningful outcomes of the Duck's replacement were (1) restoration of Libyan energy supplies to Europe and (2) prevention of a invasion of southern Europe by Libya refugees. I think those 2 reasons were really behind the "Libyan adventure." Other stated reasons were merely a smokescreen. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2012-01-28 11:13 |
| #3 Like most things on the left, it was about feeling good about yourself not in accomplishing anything meaningful. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-01-28 10:20 |
| #2 "Surprisingly, the Wilsonian hawks who gave us this inspiring policy haven't yet sent a new barrage of airstrikes to stop the new round of brutality and bloodshed." What's surprising about it? |
| Posted by: Barbara 2012-01-28 06:21 |
| #1 The Egyptian crackdown on NGOs and the current refusal to allow US citizens connected to them to leave is yet another sign that the NGO world of civic activism is going to face more determined government push back around the world.
About time, too. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2012-01-28 02:58 |