Comments on: Libya: A War Of The Womb

By: Bob Harrison

Bob Harrison — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 04:19:10 +0000

“American foreign policy is something that could have been dreamed up on Oprah’s couch.”
I can’t think of a more horrifying or more accurate assessment of our situation today. The preeminent global military power with 12 aircraft carriers and hundreds of nuclear missiles at its disposal being steered by touchy-feely types who can be duped by any rag tag tribal rebels claiming to be democrats… how horrible.
Libya is a tribal society that probably wasn’t meant to be one country. We should get out now and let Cyrenaica and Tripolitania go their separate ways. If the Europeans care so much, let them deal with it.
I thought all along that the French want to integrate North Africa into the EU and that is why they are so gung-ho about intervening there. Of course Northern European countries with no Mediterranean ports or interests want nothing to do with this mess. Why should the United States be in the business of corralling Germany to do the bidding of the French? It’s such a farce it would be numerous if the stakes weren’t the lives of Western soldiers.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 04:05:47 +0000

I’ve gotten more trusting of one of history’s great losers, George Mc Govern, who said:
“I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”
Now, it is middle aged women sending young men off to die.

It is the Eloi and the Morlock of H.G. Welles’ Time Machine with the brainless childlike women (Eloi) who control the educational system, dominate law schools, are now sending the disposable apelike men (Morlocks) off as these
women kick sand in some minor bully’s face and then send their macho men out to take on the minor bully:

http://alvanista.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/eloi-and-morlocks-guess-which-gender-is-which/

Meanwhile, the Libyan “rebels”, the Afghan “Northern Alliance”, and the “South” Vietnamese are always the proverbial “weak” side in the conflict who wind up growing completely dependent upon the American War Machine to be viable politically in their own countries. America leaves and their tent folds. I watched the South Vietnamese puppet government with their 1,300,000 man army (on paper) collapse completely in 55 days in 1975:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh_campaign

This is the general state of “allies” who become complete dependents on America to maintain their local political power. It is the future of Afghanistan, Libya, and Iraq.

By: Michael Marks

Michael Marks — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 03:11:24 +0000

Good article. May I also say you can turn a phrase like no one I know. “Estrogen-driven paternalism on steriods” – now that’s a power packed phrase!

By: truth1st

truth1st — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:23:12 +0000

We might have learned by now why the standard government in the mid-east is oppressive dictatorship. Because when you remove the heavy lid of that bubbling, steaming, malodorous pot, decades of rage, hatred and barbarity burst forth like bats out of hell. These people are gifted orators, rapidly turning docile gatherings into seething mobs praying to die avenging the black wickedness of other religions. For heaven’s sake, put the lid back on and keep the hell away from that pot.

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 20:43:18 +0000

“estrogen-driven paternalism on steroids”

Wow!

By: Don

Don — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 18:52:27 +0000

Ilana, you have nailed it once again. The only problem (not yours) is that the “new government” promoted by Obama will be the “Muslim Brotherhood.” Not a pretty thought.

By: LizardLips

LizardLips — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 17:46:26 +0000

Korea 1950-53, Vietnam 1960-75, Grenada 1983, Iraq 1990, Bosnia 1993-94, Afghanistan 2001, Iraq 2003, Libya present day. Without counting the lesser forays into Grenada, Lebanon and Somalia this nation has and is actively engaged in eight wars for reasons other than the one vital U.S. interest our Department of Defense is chartered with; protecting our country from foreign incursions. Ironically, attacks on our interests and person in the U.S. are not worthy of due diligence by our elected officials, who deem that foreign nation’s grievences should take precedence over ours.
I think it’s high time we call it what it truly is; the Department of War.

By: Stephen Hayes

Stephen Hayes — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:33:32 +0000

The very second American boots put their toes into Afghanistan and Iraq, the cry from the left was: “What’s our exit strategy?” I guess so we could announce to the enemy how and when we were leaving. Apparently, we’re not leaving. In any case, one has to wonder aloud on the Libyan adventure: What’s our entrance strategy? And along with that, what’s our foreign strategy, policy, attitude?

I felt that Obama wanted to get in on Monday and out by Wednesday or Thursday, just in time for another weekend trip with the family. Qaddafi has to go, unless he stays, and we need to defeat him, or not, or have a stalemate and perpetually divided Libya, or maybe just bomb both sides, but no arms to the “rebels” and no American soldiers on the ground, unless we change our minds.

How about if we had just kept our noses out? How about if perhaps we had let Europe deal with it? And how come the Left isn’t asking what the exit strategy is? Oh, but this is for humanitarian purposes to save lives, an oft ignored collateral effect of bombing.

Maybe the new Obama policy is: easy in, never out. A policy pursued by others since the Korean War. Boy! Thank goodness that one is over.