Comments on: Subsidizing “Freedom” for the Arab Street

By: Mike Marks

Mike Marks — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:41:55 +0000

Today’s language alert is the following: It’s not a war it’s a “Kinetic Military Action”. Yes I realize that a cyber-attack would not be considered a kinetic action in terms of Pentagon usage of the language. However, language is important. The left has a history of manipulating language to help achieve its goals. Korea was just a Police action again under the guise of the UN.

Damn it when you “take out” a country’s command and control system and destroy its Air Force it is WAR! I think calling the Libyan action a Kinetic Military Action is just a little too nuanced for me. These nuanced phrases sound and smell quite a bit like “heffer dust” to my ear and nose!

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:39:41 +0000

“I went from anger to sarcasm.” No question: A problem common to all of us. The sheer amount of stupidity that surrounds us only leaves a choice of one of those two options available.

By: George Pal

George Pal — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:47:23 +0000

If not wholly wards of the American state, then certainly of interest to the progressively putrescent West, seeking a reason to expand the brand ‘democracy,’ and to flex NATO incompetence worldwide. It is pretty much assured that Libya – and other stick pins of interest on the map – will exit status quo ante long after the West has ceased to.

By: james huggins

james huggins — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:06:51 +0000

As I stated in another post, I don’t know who are the good guys and the bad guys in Libya. I don’t see either faction in this Saharan broohaha that is on our side. Even if we could identify such do we need to be there? Even if we should be there do the stumble, fumble and fall leaders of our government know how to conduct a military operation? I see nothing positive coming out of this whole deal.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 04:21:01 +0000

Robert G – Sorry – I went from anger to sarcasm. The example of replacing Hapsburgs with Hitler was just how “expert” our micromanaging is. Sometimes, like in the case of Diem, we wind up killing our own puppet!

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:18:26 +0000

“The US is expert at global micromanagement” I can’t agree Myron. The US is very experienced; but, ‘expert’ requires proficiency. Almost everyone we put in, gets kicked out. However, we do keep trying, maybe there’s a prize for that.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:31:56 +0000

Israel will be responding to an attack on its own cities and people. The US, meanwhile, responds to events in countries half a planet away that in no way affect its own people. As you have said – one fights because it wants to fight and the other one fights because it must.

Libya was artificially molded out of
Cynenaica (Benghazi), Tripolitania, and Fezzan – see

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

but now the Anglo-American-UN Empire will wind up selecting some national figurehead while all the tribes jostle for position (as in Afghanistan and Iraq) until such time as the Imperial Coalition gives up or gets bankrupted.

The US is expert at global micromanagement – Austria, for example, went from the Hapsburgs to Hitler thanks to Woodrow Wilson’s meglomania.