…with respect to “our” Libyan adventures:
For Barack Obama, “leading from behind” has never looked so…decisive. By putting Europe and the Arabs in the lead, President Obama found a new path to “regime change.” But will he get any credit?
You know, for a guy who lectured the US on staying out of the affairs of other nations, this guy — and his champions and sycophants — surely do want a lot of credit for, you know, helping to overthrow regimes of other nations whose affairs we were told we need to stay out of.
But then, like most Americans, I have a short memory — and it’s likely I’ll miss the bulging layers of irony and hypocrisy in my rush to give full-throated huzzahs to the one-worlder Imperialist-in-Chief, whose brilliant and nuanced lead from behind strategy has allowed him to avoid the War Powers Act, and maintain the kind of plausible deniability for governmental overthrows that will very clearly give rise to unprecedented trust from the world’s other, co-equal nations.
Git-r-done!
The greatest irony I see today is that Barack Obama was elected president of the United States and awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for little more than not being George W. Bush.
now Libya can drill oils and create jobs and failshit America can print more food stamps and imagine all the people living for today
They want credit for winning a not-war kinetic military action that flew in the face of all of the Left’s purported beliefs about unilateral wars by the Prezzydent, and gave the bird to the WPA and Congress.
But will he get any credit?
He’s gonna need it. Bike rental on Martha’s Vineyard is what, $30 a day? Who carries that kind of cash nowadays?
Revolutions of this type are the common and easy variety to start and even to have “successfully” conclude. Obama’s method was used by the USSR during the whole of the Cold War and always called by using, spoken of as, some version of the word “liberation”. The model is the French Revolution. The only uncertainty is who will play Napoleon and how much chaos will occur before he emerges.
My recollection of this may be fuzzy, but weren’t we more or less shamed into participating in this by France and Great Britain? Where’s the leadership in harrumphing your way towards protecting your phoney baloney leader of the free world status?
The Hologram hasn’t been in a rush to try to claim credit – because he knows the jury is still out on whether things will be better or worse for the US post-Gadaffi.
Let’s all chip in and buy him a “Mission Accomplished” banner to stand in front of.
totally unrelated, but my desk and floor began shaking after 2 pm today, and I thought “huh, that really felt like an earthquake”
turn on the news…I was actually GIDDY at the thought that the Capitol might have caved in! Kinda disappointed that everyone can go back to work. :/
None of this heavy lifting was necessary. If the same French and International Left (but I repeat myself) didn’t keep getting in the way of Reagan’s trying to rid the world of this Green-Booked, Pan-Arab Socialist pest twenty five years ago, PanAm would still be in business.
Anyway, does protocol now dictate we go with “Chickenhawk,” or stick with “Downgrade,” when referencing our Commando-In-Chief?
There was an earthquake in Virginia.
Your argument is invalid.
That earthquake type thing was like the coolest ten seconds ever.
That shit ain’t over. It’s just barely gotten warmed up.
I wouldn’t even get out of bed for a quake like that. People need to calm down.
That article was an Orwellian masterpiece.
Never have so few done so little for such praise.
Most folks up the eastcoast ought to start thinking about Irene a little, stead of the earthquake.
On a slightly related note, ever wonder what happened to Miss South Carolina?
http://www.houseofodd.com/2007/08/29/miss-teen-usa-miss-south-carolina-transcript/
Now we know:
http://p.twimg.com/AXiZjxVCEAAfyJL.jpg
Just as with the debt deal being about putting the Republican’s major fiscal tool out of play until after the election, Obama’s foreign policy objective now is to keep the Islamists, in Libya and Egypt, from being seen to take power until after 2012. I’ll bet Hillary is counseling the Egyptian generals to go very very slow on elections. To give the non-Islamists time to get their shit together, or just to postpone the inevitable past Nov 2012?
Ah yes, “Leading from behind”. Our Teleprompter Man wants all the glory should things work out well, but none of the responsibility if the Middle East goes south. So his foreign policy is just like his domestic policy, geared toward the greater glory of himself. Who knew?
Well, if he takes credit for Gadaffi, I hope he also is ready to take credit for the sharia based government that will almost certainly result. He may not be a muslim but he’s certainly helping spread Islam.
I no longer think that Teh Won is a muzzie. Rather, he’s a black separatist atheist who likes that Izlamizts are doing the dirty work of ridding the world of non-liberal regimes, and if they happen to institute Sharia law even in the US, Teh Won just ask for a waiver.
It is a bit disturbing how the Transnational Left isn’t even pretending any more about how they’ve been appropriating Militant Islam as its muscular wing.
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I remember how not too long ago the Dems used to complain about military outsourcing. Now, it’s virtuous policy.