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2011-03-20 Africa North
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Posted by Fred 2011-03-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top

#1 I was wrong.... about being.... wrong.

Obama finally came to the aid of his mooslim brothers. We have learned nothing. Boots on the ground will be the next headline.
Posted by Besoeker on the road again. 2011-03-20 00:58||   2011-03-20 00:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Only because three chicks pushed him into it.

So we were both half-right. :)
Posted by RandomJD 2011-03-20 03:00||   2011-03-20 03:00|| Front Page Top

#3 RamdomJD:

I feel you are correct JD. Interesting who that fellow listens to. Obama's actions here will lead the way and add legitimacy for his ultimate goal, that of intervention in every kak hole stink pot in Africa.
Posted by Besoeker on the road again 2011-03-20 07:23||   2011-03-20 07:23|| Front Page Top

#4 
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Posted by  Dribble2716 2011-03-20 08:55||   2011-03-20 08:55|| Front Page Top

#5 They'll salute and respect the office but not necessarily the "man" who fills it.
Posted by whitecollar redneck 2011-03-20 09:28||   2011-03-20 09:28|| Front Page Top

#6 They'll salute and respect the office but not necessarily the "man" who fills it.
Posted by whitecollar redneck 2011-03-20 09:28||   2011-03-20 09:28|| Front Page Top

#7 oops, sorry for the double post. First cup of coffee.
Posted by whitecollar redneck 2011-03-20 09:29||   2011-03-20 09:29|| Front Page Top

#8 ...three chicks pushed him into it.

Modifying another Lefty meme.

"the cruelty of old women who send young men off to die"

[It's fun to shove this stuff back into their faces]
Posted by Procopius2k 2011-03-20 09:49||   2011-03-20 09:49|| Front Page Top

#9 I think Obama and the Euroweenie hypocrites only intervened to oust entrenched dictators so more worldly puppets are in place for the New World Order of global governance. Freezing/seizing their assets and control of the new currency require a little "distasteful" military action. He's a followerm not a leader, however; must have received some instructions in CO on his ski vacation, too. And Michelle's Most Extravagant Adventure in Spain was probably strategic as well as arrogant.
Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2011-03-20 11:53||   2011-03-20 11:53|| Front Page Top

#10 Not just "3 chicks" according to RandomJD's article, but two of the three were what the New York Times journalist called "a handful of top administration aides":

The change became possible, though, only after Mrs. Clinton joined Samantha Power, a senior aide at the National Security Council, and Susan Rice, Mr. Obama’s ambassador to the United Nations"

Why bother having people in the top slots, approved by Congress and everything, if you're going to ignore them in favour of underlings?
Posted by trailing wife 2011-03-20 12:23||   2011-03-20 12:23|| Front Page Top

#11 Why bother having people in the top slots, approved by Congress and everything, if you're going to ignore them in favour of underlings?

Thus, the czars.
Posted by badanov 2011-03-20 12:42|| http://www.freefirezone.org  2011-03-20 12:42|| Front Page Top

#12 Hang on there. A little respect, for both historical memory and for one of those "chicks" who preserved that memory, Ms. Power. From Leon W. at The New Republic, writing about Obama's "disgrace" and remembering Power's magisterial book about the slaughterhouse in the Balkans, where Clinton dithered: http://www.tnr.com/article/world/85098/obama-libya-policy-qaddafi-disgrace

"Does Obama have any idea of what Qaddafi’s victory will mean for the region and its awakening?

We have flinched this way before. For many days I have had a sickening 1992–1995 feeling. Consider these sentences, from a book I lugubriously took off my shelf: 'Why does the United States stand so idly by? The most common answer is, ‘We didn’t know.’ This is not true. … A second response to the question of why the United States did so little is that it could not have done much to stop the horrors. [But] the only way to ascertain the consequences of U.S. diplomatic, economic, or military measures would have been to undertake them. … If anything testifies to the U.S. capacity for influence, it is the extent to which the perpetrators kept an eye trained on Washington and other Western capitals as they decided how to proceed. … The real reason the United States did not do what it could and should have done to stop genocide was not a lack of knowledge or influence but a lack of will. Simply put, American leaders did not act because they did not want to.'

The Libyan calamity is not genocide, but genocide is not the only horror that has a claim on American agency. I have taken those wise sentences from "A Problem from Hell," Samantha Power’s sad, great study of earlier American failures to act against mass-murdering tyrants. Is Obama now writing his own chapter in that story? Why do we not still remember that story? It is disgusting, as the Libyan rebels are driven further and further back, to learn that we must discover it all over again."
Posted by lex 2011-03-20 23:13||   2011-03-20 23:13|| Front Page Top

#13 Samantha Power's sad, great study of earlier American failures to act against mass-murdering tyrants.

So our honourable president will allow himself to be persuaded to attack Libya for that reason, but not Iran, North Korea, or Pakistan? Has Ms Power spoken out about those countries, or in support of the invasion of Iraq in 2003? It doesn't count if she only speaks up for the ones the Clintons like.
Posted by trailing wife 2011-03-20 23:28||   2011-03-20 23:28|| Front Page Top

#14 She did.
Posted by lex 2011-03-20 23:47||   2011-03-20 23:47|| Front Page Top

#15 Then I respect her, and am glad she spoke up this time. Thank you for pointing out her history, lex.
Posted by trailing wife 2011-03-20 23:57||   2011-03-20 23:57|| Front Page Top

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