(RON! Not Rand!)
(*WINK*)
* * *
The use of the U.S. military overseas seems to have
become so commonplace that the Obama Administration can bomb a country with no
Congressional input and very little media interest at all. Such was the case on
Friday, Feb. 19, when the U.S. military killed some 49 people in a bombing run
near Tripoli, Libya.
We "had" to bomb Libya, we are told, because
Libya has become a hotbed of ISIS activity.
* Hmm... AND HOW EXACTLY DID THAT HAPPEN...
(*SMIRK*)
The group has been moving training facilities into the
country, taking advantage of the chaos.
Ironically, it was five years ago this week that the
“Arab Spring” uprising began in Libya - an uprising that was supported by U.S.
military force...
* AT THE URGING OF HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON AND THE COMMAND
OF BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA...
...and led to the overthrow of the Libyan government and
the murder of its leader, Gaddafi.
* AND, YEAH... BAD GUY OR NOT... HE WAS MURDERED. AND HRC
LAUGHED AT IT AT THE TIME. LITERALLY! COMPARE AND CONTRAST TO HOW BUSH DEALT WITH SADDAM
HUSSEIN; AT LEAST BUSH OBSERVED THE NICETIES. (AND DID YOU EVER HEAR ANY LIBS
COMPLAINING ABOUT HOW WE MURDERED GADDAFI... "OUR" ALLIES, THAT
IS...?)
We were told that the U.S. "had" to intervene
to overthrow Gaddafi so that democracy and human rights could flourish, yet
five years after the U.S.-led intervention no one would argue that the country
is better off.
* AND THE ARCHITECT OF THE POLICY - THEN-SECRETARY OF
STATE HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON - IS NOW THE FRONT-RUNNER FOR THE DEMOCRATIC
NOMINATION FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES.
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
Instead of bringing Libya democracy, U.S. intervention
brought Libya ISIS.
So now... the U.S. has to go back and bomb Libya some
more... to take care of ISIS.
(*SNORTING AS I CONTINUE TO SHAKE MY HEAD*)
Will this work?
No.
Logic tells us you cannot do more of what caused a
problem and expect it to fix the problem.
As Middle East analyst Hillary Mann Leverett observed
after Friday’s U.S. attack on Libya, "the problem is, for each one of
these targeted killings, what we have seen in the data that at least two more
people sign up to join.”
(*MIGRAINE HEADACHE*)
The United States has made a habit of lecturing other
countries about the need to follow the rule of law, yet this seems to be a
matter of “do as we say, not as we do.” How else can we explain a U.S. attack
overseas with no Congressional input?
Certainly there was no Congressional authorization for
Friday’s bombing.
The Administration claimed that its authority came from
the 2001 authorization to use military force against al-Qaeda in retaliation
for the attacks of 9/11. But ISIS did not even exist on 9/11. How can the 2001
authorization be twisted to include bombing Libya in 2016?
Libya has been in chaos since its 2011 “liberation,” but
the country’s interim government strongly objected to Friday’s U.S. bombing,
claiming they were not consulted before the U.S. attack. They called U.S. air
strikes a violation of Libya’s sovereignty and of international law.
* YA THINK...?!?!
They have a point. But the most important point we must
learn from the destruction of Libya – and of Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and so
on – is that U.S. interventionism has been a complete failure.
Hundreds of thousands have been killed in the last 15
years, societies have been broken apart, economies have been destroyed, and
property has been flattened. There are no success stories.
The neocon plan to remake the Middle East has only
succeeded in destroying the Middle East.
* MUCH OF IT, ANYWAY...
* BOTTOM LINE... IN ALL SERIOUSNESS... IF WE THOUGHT
THINGS WERE BAD UNDER BUSH... GEEZUS... LOOK AT WHAT THIS FOOL, OBAMA, HAS
DONE!
As a consequence, we are far less safe than before the
“war on terror” was launched.
ISIS and other terrorist groups have expanded their
territory...
* YEP!
...and have even been able to attack in Europe and the
[even the] U.S. [mainland].
* SEVERAL TIMES, IN FACT, SINCE OBAMA HAS BEEN
PRESIDENT...
* FORT HOOD... FORT HOOD AGAIN... BOSTON... CALIFORNIA...
(*HEADACHE GETTING WORSE*)
Our currency has been debased to pay for the trillions of
dollars spent in this no-win war.
The connected elites have gotten rich while the middle
class has gotten poorer.
Intervention has failed.
It is time to stand up to the neocons and their liberal
interventionist collaborators and say “no more!”
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