If we really just wanted the oil in this case, we would have supported these countries’ former governments - but suddenly we’ve gone ideological. And what is the ideology we’re supporting? Islam.
Obama was complicit in the destruction of both of these governments, which while they were undeniably dictatorships, were much more tolerant of non-Muslims, women, etc., and had generally been brought/bought to cooperate with us.
It was about oil once, but now it’s about ideology: Obama’s anti-American, Third World Islamist fantasy being promoted with our dollars, and oil be damned.
After all, we’ ll all be using solar pretty soon once he funds another solyndra. This man is killing us.
Sorry to sound hysterical. I’m so angry this morning that I can barely swallow my coffee.
Spot on. This is Obama’s Hilary driven foreign policy. It’s unfolding right now in Syria. Egypt was a cesspool. What will it be now? Libya was stable. Obama is a failure both domestically and internationally.
But, if we just limit it to Obama we miss the train. Obama’s politices are the policies of central planning: That some very, very smart people can run things for the rest of us.
The Ivy League kills again.
“Obama was complicit in the destruction of both of these governments, which while they were undeniably dictatorships, were much more tolerant of non-Muslims, women, etc., and had generally been brought/bought to cooperate with us.”
Let’s get some facts in here. Kaddhafi ordered his military to shoot Libyans. That’s not tolerance. Most of the Libyan military, except his elite guard, refused to do so. Then Kaddhafi mobilized his mercenary armies in southern Libya, and they did start shooting Libyans. Most of the Libyan army deserted, taking their arms with them, and headed back to their provinces to protect their homes. They joined up with the provincial militias, which are equivalent to our state guards, made a battle plan and drove out the mercenaries.
The left wing media squealed after the militias started hanging the mercenaries from lampposts because a good number of these mercenaries were black Africans. This was not politically correct.
They were even more upset when the militias dragged Kaddhafi’s bureaucrats into the town square and executed them. These commie bureaucrats were dear komrades of Hillary and the commies in the state department. Many of these Kaddhafi loyalists were caught trying to escape Libya, and their SUVs were loaded with American dollars and Libyan treasures.
In sum, Kaddhafi wasn’t a friend toward non-Muslims and women. Kaddhafi cared only about himself and his power, much like the current infestation occupying our whitehouse.
And just to set matters straight, the Muslim Brotherhood is not part of the Libyan government. It’s in Egypt where they rule.
Livius, it is rare that you are not articulate.
I, too, am hysterical, having cussed out Hillary when she made her statement on the TV this morning.
It is likely that three sets of parents, and other loved ones, will be getting notices today that their Marine sons were killed in Libya.
More and more, 0bama's regime parallels Carter.
We are facing something unimaginable...