What began as comedy has now become tragedy. Here’s Hillary Clinton, describing current US foreign policy to the House Foreign Relations Committee:
If you follow, as we follow, all of the websites that are looking at what’s happening in the Middle East, you see a constant drumbeat that ‘the United States is going to invade Libya to take over the oil — and we can’t let that happen.
The false perceptions our enemies drum up to demonize us are now to be allowed to determine how we act in our own national interest.
Which is to say, the everyday commentariat at, for instance, Balloon Juice, is the driving force behind our foreign policy.
The inmates are running the asylum.
We have ships off the coast to save lives if things go completely bat shit in Libya (and you could argue we are already at that point). Hillary needs to pull her head out of her ass.
I have a hard time telling who is worse, Obama or Rodham-Clinton.
This is very telling about the echo chamber that she and the left inhabit.
Hell Jeff, the management levels at the State Department are staffed by the “Baloon Juice” crew!
I heard Hillz say this yesterday, and thought it one of the most asinine things I’d heard her say in a long time. And as you mention, allowing our foreign policy to be driven by blog commentary, instead of, say, our national interests, is patently ridiculous. Not to mention her ersatz affirmation of the feverish belief that “ConQuest/Blood for oil!” was ever official US policy.
What’s next? A “reader poll” at WhiteHouse.gov to decide whether we establish a no-fly zone over Libya, and whether DoD is allowed to follow SOP if that is the mission, or, you know, do they have to leave Libyan AA defenses in place, because of the fairness!11!1!
You see, it’d be another exposition of the melding of SMART POWER! and RESTORING AMERICA’S STANDING IN THE WORLD!”, using our armed forces righteously! and having them taken down a few pegs at the same time…
And guys like Medved at Townhall decry those who believe this administration is deliberately trying to diminish America’s strength.
Effin’ putzes.
Sorry for the html spill. The bolding should have “closed” after “RESTORING AMERICA’S STANDING IN THE WORLD!.
Heh.
NO VINEGAR FOR OIL!
I’m an enemy of the Administration, and I go on at length about what a feckless, spineless, brainless bunch of losers they are. What are the odds that Teh Won will start directing his policies based on my criticisms?
Gotta get me some oil and nukes. Maybe kill me some gays and mutilate a few women. Then they’ll take me seriously!
Don’t laugh. When researching toxic political waste, I found a little place on the Internet called Balloon Juice. It’s deeply tragic.*
*No snail darters were injured as a result of making of this comment.
“If you follow, as we follow, all of the websites that are looking at what’s happening in the Middle East, you see a constant drumbeat that ‘the United States is going to invade Libya to take over the oil
And if you don’t follow the websites that we follow, you’re not ‘my people’.
–Eric Holder
I cringe at the image this administration presents of the nation, but I do like the thought of letting Europe take the lead with Libya. They have more of a stake in that particular situation.
I’m Leery of being involved in any no-fly zone too, our participation in it at least. They’d probably have rules of engagement requiring flames in the cockpit before returning fire. Plus, you know Europe would just use us to cover their ass in expense, and blame, should anything go wrong.
And fuck that.
France has fighter jets, yes?
France has fighter jets, yes?
I’m not sure. They might have sold them all.
To Libya.
Libya’s air force equipment appears to be roughly half French and half Soviet.
Draw your own conclusions from that.
They seem to have some US equipment, too, but that might be very very old.
Okay, so, no blood for oil.
I’m cool with that.
Then we do the following:
Oil Shale (high paying jobs)
OCS oil (more high paying jobs)
ANWR (Even more high paying jobs)
Utah Coal (jobs)
Gulf Drilling (yeah, even more jobs)
Atlantic Drilling (Jobs)
Mine uranium in Virgiana (huge deposit of ore and, of course, jobs would be created)
Billions in taxes through exploiting natural resources along with becoming a net exporter of energy. Solving part of our trade deficit problem, too.
The Middle East oil producing countries can burn to the ground for all I care.
Cheap abundant energy in the US means cheaper farming costs. Food prices go down.
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Sigh. And it will never happen.
If you follow, as we follow, all of the websites that are looking at what’s happening in the Middle East,
That would leave out the Ball-Juicers, Jeff. They don’t do policy anymore. There are only two topics for Ball-Juicers: “Look how stupid/crazy/evil/Christianist Republicans are!” and “Why does the GOP hate gays/brown people/hippies so much?”
Wasn’t one of Hillary’s reasons for being better than The O! — she was ready to take the crisis call at 3:00 am?
I guess that was because she was up to 2:00 am checking out all the libtard blogs . . . .
To be fair, she has her hands full just keeping an eye on Bill’s browsing history and cache. She prolly doesn’t start browsing the Sorosphere ’til after midnight.
Wait — so you’re telling me all that Ball-Juicer stuff isn’t informed commentary on the policy issues of the day?
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Are you sure?
Hey Obama just gave out the first drilling permit…to BP. I told you BP and Obama had an arrangement back during that 20 billion dollar deal.
Meanwhile Andy McCarty is catching flack from…NRO?
“There are only two topics for Ball-Juicers: “Look how stupid/crazy/evil/Christianist Republicans are!” and “Why does the GOP hate gays/brown people/hippies so much?””
Land of the dancing penguins?
Slart,
1960s vintage. It predates Gadaffi. I wonder if any of it is still operational…
A Boeing 707?
Heh. He has 180 MiG-21/Mig-23 variants. And 80 Mig-25s – fast flying bricks.
I really doubt the Libyan AF would want to fight us with that. Can you say, “Gulf of Sidra Turkey Shoot”?
Joe – is that really true?
Spiny, that reminds me of a joke from around the time we bombed GoDaffy’s ass in the ’80s:
Why did GoDaffy buy a glass-bottomed boat for his Navy?
So he could look at his Air Force.
I was gonna LOL on Baloon Juice, but heh works.