Posted on 04/15/2011 11:15:36 AM PDT by FreeManDC
The US involvement in yet another war in a Muslim country is slowly turning into yet another quagmire. After Iraq and Afghanistan, who would have guessed that this could happen? One of the main platforms of Obamas campaign was a promise to extricate the US from unpopular wars, and now we suddenly find ourselves in yet another
And who is responsible for this?
According to the New York Times, it was a clique of female advisors, including Hillary Clinton, Samantha Powers and Susan Rice.
Only the day before, Mrs. Clinton along with her boss, President Obama was a skeptic on whether the United States should take military action in Libya. But that night, with Col. Muammar el-Qaddafis forces turning back the rebellion that threatened his rule, Mrs. Clinton changed course, forming an unlikely alliance with a handful of top administration aides who had been arguing for intervention.
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The change became possible, though, only after Mrs. Clinton joined Samantha Power, a senior aide at the National Security Council, and Susan Rice, Mr. Obamas ambassador to the United Nations, who had been pressing the case for military action, according to senior administration officials speaking only on condition of anonymity.
Anyone with a cursory knowledge of history should know that women in power are just as likely to use violence to attain their goals as men. From Cleopatra to Empress Dowager Cixi, female rulers have readily ordered men to shed blood on their behalf.
Although a depressing number of people actually bought the feminist claim that female rule would usher in an era of peace and understanding, perhaps the truth is beginning to reveal itself as the West settles into a more Byzantine phase, and is characterized increasingly by class hierarchy rather than patriarchal egalitarianism.
What we have to understand about feminism is that ultimately the movement was not about women as a whole, but rather an elite, dissatisfied subset with a will to power. Of course Hillary Clinton identifies as a feminist without the ideology and feminist support would she have had a chance to be one of the most powerful people on the planet?
One sees the same with discussions of the mythological wage gap, where feminists will argue that the most powerful and richest people are men while ignoring the men in the gutter without a trace of irony. These women do not want equality; they want to go straight to the top. They feel they deserve it. How could anyone be surprised that when they get there they will not hesitate to crush their enemies with bombs and missiles?
Hopefully, President Obama can rein in these advisors before he involves us in yet another fiasco costly in both blood and wealth.
Carpet bomb with cluster cup cakes. The regime ends up too fat to fight. Hillary still has control of the air. Wonder if that makes her Princess of the Air.
In America, being a man is woman’s work - and they do it quite badly.
NeoFems
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