Comments on: No To Strafing Libya https://barelyablog.com/no-to-strafing-libya/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Bob Harrison https://barelyablog.com/no-to-strafing-libya/comment-page-1/#comment-18060 Sat, 05 Mar 2011 05:09:00 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=35316#comment-18060 “Do we need the oil? If so we should do what it takes to get it and to heck with public opinion.”

We need the oil but they need to sell it. They (most oil exporters) don’t have economies of their own with which to utilize their resources so they have no choice but to sell it on the global market. Self interested parties, even loathsome regimes like those in the Middle East, can be our trade partners.

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By: Mari Tyers https://barelyablog.com/no-to-strafing-libya/comment-page-1/#comment-18049 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:19:05 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=35316#comment-18049 Oh, f***. Now he really will have a war to call his own.

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By: John McNeill https://barelyablog.com/no-to-strafing-libya/comment-page-1/#comment-18048 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 18:32:56 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=35316#comment-18048 The West needs to give up this history-long obsession of remaking the world in its image. It cannot be done. We just need to learn to accept our distinctiveness and tend to our own garden.

I offer my full support in any mass movement opposed to intervention in Libya. But I have a feeling we won’t be able to count on the once vast legions of the Left that marched against Bush’s invasion of Iraq. Call it a hunch.

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By: Myron Pauli https://barelyablog.com/no-to-strafing-libya/comment-page-1/#comment-18043 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:21:38 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=35316#comment-18043 RATIONALE – There is nothing the odious Khaddafi has done in the last 10 years that has endangered the lives or liberties of anyone living in the United States of America.

PRACTICALITY – Even assuming that it made sense for the USA to “do something”, it would make more sense just to give supplies (anti-armor and anti-air missiles, RPG’s, guns, night vision equipment) to the rebels than to do an occupation. Of course, TODAY’s FREEDOM FIGHTERS ARE TOMORROW’S TERRORISTS (see Mujahedeen/Taliban Pushtuns 1980-2011).

CONSTITUTIONALITY – Obama, Bush, Romney, etc. do not have the power to initiate offensive military actions – only CONGRESS has the authority. While this country is apathetic about the rule of law, starting a War (Truman style) without Congress is, arguably, usurpation and is impeachable.

PRECEDENT – An unsuccessful occupation will be another expensive pile of quicksand like Afghanistan and Iraq. If successful, it will spawn new misadventures in Zimbabwe, Ivory Coast, and numerous other countries.

I highly recommend an excellent essay by Major General Smedley Butler of the Marines written nearly 80 years ago which was reprinted today in Lew Rockwell:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig12/butler-s1.1.1.html

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By: james huggins https://barelyablog.com/no-to-strafing-libya/comment-page-1/#comment-18040 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:42:09 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=35316#comment-18040 Sorry, but I don’t give a rip about the Libyans or the Iraqis or the Phillistines or anybody else because I know they would all line up to urinate on American graves if they got the chance. All I care about is; Do we need the oil? If so we should do what it takes to get it and to heck with public opinion. The only caveat is we don’t have the national leadership with smarts enough to do battle in a Muslim country. As far as I’m concerned we don’t have the leadership, politically or militarily to do battle anywhere. I hope a bus load of eskimos don’t get mad at us. Obama would be bowing down to the king of the eskimos while Hillary Clinton would want a consensus from the Security Council before we do anything.

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