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Libya: Women Unleash State Violence
The Sprearhead ^ | April 14, 2011 | WF Price

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 Obama’s 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-Qaddafi’s 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. Obama’s 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.


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1 posted on 04/15/2011 11:15:40 AM PDT by FreeManDC
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To: FreeManDC

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.


2 posted on 04/15/2011 11:20:37 AM PDT by throwback ( The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid)
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To: FreeManDC

In America, being a man is woman’s work - and they do it quite badly.


3 posted on 04/15/2011 11:39:21 AM PDT by frithguild (The Democrat Party Brand - Big Government protecting Entrenched Interests from Competition)
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To: FreeManDC

4 posted on 04/15/2011 12:05:56 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
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To: FreeManDC
it was a clique of female advisors, including Hillary Clinton, Samantha Powers and Susan Rice.

NeoFems

5 posted on 04/15/2011 12:19:42 PM PDT by mas cerveza por favor
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