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The Boy Who Declared Victory

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  August 17th, 2011 at 08:30 AM  | 

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Matt Drudge has done yeoman’s work in presenting an interesting analysis of our nation’s ongoing “Days Not Weeks War” with Libya. This conflict nears the ½ year mark of continued pointless ineptitude. NATO persecutes this war with the efficiency and diligence with which Harry Reid drives the US Senate towards the passage of a Senate version of the Federal Budget. President Obama continues to lead from behind like Brave Sir Robin of Monty Python fame. Below are a series of quotes where Barack Obama’s various toadies play the role of Mouth of Sauron and declare impending victory.

August 16th, 2011.

“I think the sense is that Gaddafi’s days are numbered,” the new US defence secretary, Leon Panetta, said in Washington.

The UK Telegraph

May 11th, 2011

We believe that NATO is fully capable and is proving itself fully capable of fulfilling the mandate of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973, and believe that, as we’ve said in the past, if that mission is successfully accomplished in protecting civilians, enforcing an arms embargo, enforcing a no-fly zone, and the other measures that are being taken — the non-military measures that have been taken by the United States and the international community continue to have an impact, that Muammar Qaddafi’s days are numbered.

– Jay Carney (Whitehouse.gov)

March 30, 2011

With regard to the start of your question, we are very confident that the coalition that we are part of, that is responsible for both enforcing the no-fly zone and protecting Libyan civilians, will be capable of succeeding in its mission and pushing back Colonel Qaddafi’s forces.

– Jay Carney (Whitehouse.gov)

Absent any bad luck, this whole thing should wrap up in minutes; not hours.

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  • Hugh

    You may incur the same rath from our Muddy Stream Media as someone that called the US debt a “black cloud.”

    • Repair_Man_Jack

      Boy = Youth
      Dark CLoud = Cumulo-Nimbus w/ High LWC.

      There. I’ve been properly sanitized. Thanks a bunch.

      • Hugh

        I didn’t believe him the first time he said it. Much less the second, third, etc. I predict that the Republican that takes office in Jan 2013 will have to deal with the Libya issue and Gaddafi.

  • http://www.veronicaestrada.com Veronica

    Moscow’s in NATO, after all, last I read, in which case, it wouldn’t make any difference.

    My sense tells me he’s going to tie all these wars off to appease the progressive crowd.

    • Repair_Man_Jack

      I do know he lacks the guts to actually take Gaddaffi down personally. This is why we have the embarassing spectacle of our “Days Not Weeks” War.

      • http://www.veronicaestrada.com Veronica

        RMJ, Libya, Syria, etc. assuages the progressive/academic left’s concern over genocide and repressive governments, which trickles down to the young voter who has to take his pick between “doing for the world” and staying unemployed come 2012.

        I’d be uncomfortable feeling confident we all see Obama’s actions as idiotic. There’s a huge war conglomerate in the right that also appreciates our being involved. Keeps our boys busy and off the unemployment rolls.

        To the voting left — don’t know how much of the independents — it’s admirable.

    • aesthete

      I get the sense that Obama is too much of an arrogant SOB to admit that he was dead wrong on Afghanistan and Libya. (That said, I can see him leaving Iraq in a huff — thank God he can’t screw that one up too badly.)

      • http://www.veronicaestrada.com Veronica

        http://www.economist.com/node/16693761

        http://defensetech.org/2011/06/08/russia-joins-nato-counter-terror-exercise-for-first-time/

        Then again, maybe not full members:

        http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2010/07/russia_and_nato

        Then again, I haven’t kept up. Last I read:
        “the Russian president accepted NATO?s offer to cooperate on the creation of a territorial missile defense system for the entire Euro-Atlantic region.”

        http://worldmeets.us/ http://worldmeets.us/rossijskayagazeta000009.shtml#ixzz1VJJUyyOD

        • aesthete

          but the goals of Russia and NATO (to the extent that NATO’s goal isn’t to provide welfare to aging Dept of State and Pentagon bureaucrats) don’t coincide in most respects. It is neither a full member nor a member of any kind.