Comments on: UPDATE V: Kumbaya Coalition (Costs)

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:29:21 +0000

I watched a funny video on this earlier.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/82962.html Jon Stewart at his best.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 05:16:33 +0000

To Fred Mueller: the deficit was caused not only by “liberal socialists” like Obama but also by the borrow and spend Reaganomics of the great “conservative” himself. See

http://reason.com/archives/2011/03/21/the-triumph-of-politics-over-e

which has a very revealing interview with Reagan’s budget director David Stockman. Interestingly, today is the 28th Anniversary of the notorious Star Wars speech (written one day after I finished writing an article on why American cannot escape from Mutual Assured Destruction!). From that, this country spent over $250 Billion on shoddy pseudoscience.

Obama certainly DESERVES IMPEACHMENT but who (besides Ron Paul) gets to cast the first stone? — McCain, Gingrich, Kristol, Palin, Clinton, Biden, Cheney, Bush – all warmongers. How many remember the buildup to the Iraq War when Bush kept citing all the UN resolutions that Saddam Hussein was defying?? And how many Americans have enthusiastically endorsed every idiotic undeclared war at the beginning before they and the media grow tired of the endless quagmires?

So when will the US attack that “sh*tty little country”, the racist (Zionist) entity who has been denounced by more UN resolutions than the rest of the world put together. And when the UN orders global gun confiscation – do we make war on ourselves?

By: Fred Mueller

Fred Mueller — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 02:43:58 +0000

Just another step in Obama’s liberal socialist plan to keep forcing the U.S. ever deeper into debt. The quicker and deeper he can pile on the debt, the quicker and more completely the USA will collapse. The man should be impeached.

By: Stephen W. Browne

Stephen W. Browne — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 02:15:15 +0000

I am reminded of something my son’s late godmother said. Judith was an Englishwoman, the widow of a KGB agent from SMERSH who defected after WWII – and that’s not even the most interesting thing about her…

Judith said once, “In the end I think the British Empire was a bad idea, because we lost so many fine young men trying to civilize people who cannot be civilized!”

By: Nebojsa Malic

Nebojsa Malic — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:24:41 +0000

The oft-quoted Ferguson clip amuses me, because Niall is actually a bona fide imperialist and interventionist otherwise. But even he grasps that the U.S. doesn’t have the stomach (or purse) for the actual business of Empire.
However, I wouldn’t despair. If “whom gods would destroy, they first make mad” is true, then everything seems to be going just swimmingly…

By: Henry Bowman

Henry Bowman — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:13:00 +0000

Niall Ferguson, speaking to the airhead Mika Brezinski, explains to her why the Obama administration was utterly inept in its dealing with Egypt. The administration has now apparently redoubled its efforts to appear clueless in its dealings with Libya. The Libyan affair is a civil (actually, tribal) war, and the U.S. should have nothing whatsoever to do with it. If the Brits and the French want to do something, let them do as they please. It is truly none of our business at all. The idiots in this administration amaze me. Having said that, it is possible that the Libyan military action, blessed only by the horrible UN, may be used as precedent if Samantha Power convinces Obama to invade Israel, a position which she has advocated in the past.

By: Sioux

Sioux — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:10:39 +0000

I am one of those simpletons that Ilana refers to – at least I used to be until I saw history repeat itself in a very bad way in Kosovo – I was on the Serb’s side [which puts you outside the “simpleton” majority], but still saw no reason for our intervention – this was a civil war with the Muslims against the Christians, and my country stupidly sided with the Muslims/Al Qaida. I am 100% against continued presence in Afghanistan and intervention into any of these other “popular uprisings” in the Middle East. My dilemma has always been with the conflict of supporting our troops when they have been sent into “dumb wars.” I don’t support any of these missions, so what about support for our troops – I guess I don’t any more. This will bring about the draft quicker than anything with the white men now leaving the ranks in droves.

By: derek

derek — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:05:48 +0000

The first day of Operation Odyssey Dawn had a price tag that was well over $100 million for the U.S. in missiles alone Add another $50 million for the lost F-15E.

By: Graham Strouse

Graham Strouse — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:01:51 +0000

Another major reservation is that there really doesn’t seem to be much good information on the source of the Libyan revolution or who exactly is leading it.

By: Graham Strouse

Graham Strouse — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:47:58 +0000

I honestly haven’t decided how I feel about this one yet. Over the last 20 years the US has been quite effective at limited military interventions when we’re providing air & naval support for popular uprisings. We screw things up when we get into the occupation & exploitation business.