printI’ve dubbed him McMussolini, and a serial killer by proxy. John McCain, concurs Larry Auster, is simply “the worst man in America.” Adds Larry: Americans who’ve gone along with John McCain’s latest criminal endeavor, the war of choice against Libya, “share in his guilt”:
McCain has justified the war on Libya because Kaddafi “has blood on his hands”–a reference to the 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. But, as shown on MSNBC last night by the man substituting for Lawrence O’Donnell, McCain visited Libya in 2009 and had a friendly meeting with Kaddafi. The meeting is shown in photographs, and there is a transcript. At one point McCain expresses his support for “progress in the bilateral relationship” between Libya and the U.S.
So in 2009 McCain had put Pan Am 103 behind him, as he had no choice to do, given that the U.S. had made peace with Kaddafi following his abandonment of his WMDs programs in 2003. But in 2011, the “script” had changed (that ever-changing “script” which tells liberals who is the oppressive villain and who is the saintlike victim in any given situation), and under this new script Kaddafi was suddenly a terrible enemy again and had to be destroyed, and it was as though the 2003 peace, and the good relations Kaddafi had maintained with the U.S. since 2003, including his friendly meeting with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Tripoli in 2006, had never existed.
I repeat that if we had destroyed Kaddafi in 1988 in retaliation for the Lockerbie bombing that would have been just and right; but we did not do that; we let it pass, for 15 years, and ultimately we made peace with Kaddafi, as a part of which he paid substantial monetary damages to the families of the victims. On the political level, the Lockerbie bombing was a closed account, and no U.S. leader had the right in 2011 to bring it up again and say that we had to punish Kaddafi over it.
During the course of his career Kaddafi has been known as a whimsical tyrant. But in our war against Libya, it is not Kaddafi, but the U.S., which has behaved with the whimsicality of a tyrant.
John McCain is the worst man in America; but to the extent that we have gone along with this criminal war we all share in his guilt
UPDATE (Aug. 29): THE BIGGEST BULLY ON THE BLOCK. Huggins wrote: “That Khaddffi needed to be eliminated is not up to debate.” By who? God=USA? In he same vain the (pale) imitation of a Huggins over in the Arab world is saying, “That Bush needed to be eliminated is not up to debate.” And he’d have a solid point. Start seeing matters from both sides, and then you’ll come back to my position: quit invading these backward and benighted regions. What we’ve done—and are doing—to them is way worse than anything these people are capable of doing to us.
Thanks for pointing out Auster’s observations which were perfectly sensible (responding to Khaddaffi when he attacked us made sense – citing it after we had settled with him was outrageous) and also Diana West’s observations about the background of the “rebel leaders” (e.g. the scummy retread Khaddaffi “thugs” who are likely to turn on us).
McCain is, sadly, the Republican “problem” in nutshell. If we actually had one “socialist” party and one “capitalist” (e.g. free enterprise, not crony capitalism) party – we would be far better off than having a leftist Democratic party going up against hypocrites and warmongers who occasionally (but insincerely) pose as friends of freedom. McCain is the GOP poster boy! I have no regrets about him losing.
That Khaddffi needed to be eliminated is not up to debate. But, what are we doing over there? What do we hope to accomplish? Any takers to a bet that whatever the final outcome is it won’t be good for the US. Like everything else Obama has master minded.
[See post update.]
McCain is a carpetbagger. He always has been his entire political career. He chose Arizona to enter politics because he could run on his war record there (many retired veterans live in AZ). During each campaign, he panders to the conservatives. Once safely reelected, he does whatever he wants in office. His voting record is actually more liberal (left) than either Clinton or Obama. The individual health insurance mandate in ObamaCare actually came from McCain. He proposed the same thing for HillaryCare in 1994. He has also been in the tank on global warming since at least the mid 90’s and he also wanted to bring back conscription. McCain also made statements around ’03 or ’04 that he expected our military foray in the Middle-east (Iraq, Afghanistan) to expand into a WWII-style conflict that would ultimately involve up to 5 million U.S. soldiers in the Middle-east.
McCain cannot be considered an “conservative” by any definition of the word.
Perhaps I should have said Khaddffi needs killing but not as a result of our invading or supporting an invasion of the country. Unless we really need to invade some country for some good reason we should stay out. Yes, I mean Iraq and Afghanistan too. But, as far as seeing matters from both sides I think that is wise and logical. However our leaders usually end up bending over and gripping their ankles in front of the enemy in the name of seeing things from both sides.