Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson is joined by Pejman Yousefzadeh and Elizabeth Blackney to debate whether or not Obama should have intervened in Libya, what the real reasons for our involvement are, and who’s to blame when the operation goes awry. We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen Clouse and Associates. | Read More »
Well that’s a fine mess you’ve gotten us into Mr. Obama. The U.S. is monitoring the possibility of terrorist attacks originating in Libya, either from the forces of Muammar Qaddafi or rebels who may have associated with terror groups in the past, FBI Director Robert Mueller said. I think any of us could and would expect terror attacks originating from (Kh)(G(h))(Q)addafi. But from the rebels? | Read More »
I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also. – President Theodore Roosevelt. (HT: Brainyquote.com) Bruce Fein has long believed that Democracy in America was going the way of the Roman Republic under the rule of Caesar Augustus. He believes that so strongly that he has been especially critical of Presidents Clinton, Bush II and | Read More »
“You permitted Libya to sell oil. For what purpose? Just keep the price of oil down?” he said. “This is also a war against the Libyan people. If the west wants to protect Libyans they should protect them through every arena, economic, political and military,” he added. Ahmed el-Sharif, Libyan Rebel Finance Minister. (HT: Financial Times) Former Red Army Generals all across Russia must be | Read More »
On the heels of the Obama administration’s declaration of its readiness to go to war Kinetic Military Action on both sides of the Libyan civil war comes a report that the rebels have requested a cease-fire from the Qaddafi government. According to Bloomberg: Libyan rebels called for a cease- fire as forces loyal to Muammar Qaddafi drove them back for a third day after sandstorms | Read More »
Let me begin by saying, though the date on this post is 4/1/2011, this is not an April Fool’s gag – it’s real. I. Fresh off claiming victory not over Qaddafi, but over responsibility itself, with its touted handoff of the war kinetic military effort to itself-under-different-name, the Obama administration is now swinging the guns around on those on whose behalf we have, until now, | Read More »
Obama has no problem ignoring Congress to use our military on behalf of Al-Qaeda backed rebels in a country that has no interest to our security. Yet, he eagerly abdicates his core constitutional responsibility to protect our own border and sovereignty. On Wednesday, Richard M. Stana, director of homeland security issues at the Government Accountability Office, testified before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security regarding | Read More »
You and I both know that anytime you have a war, innocent civilians get killed. But Barack Obama told us this is not a war. This is just a kinetic military action. The whole reason we are in Libya is to stop innocent civilians from being killed. It is the raison d’être of Susan Rice, Samantha Powers, and Hillary Clinton. They wanted to stop a | Read More »
I had intended to write up a longer or at any rate more organized essay about Libya, but for now, here are my two cents: 1. I was open initially, at least in theory, to the U.S. arming the rebels and enforcing a no-fly zone over Libya, on the theory that we could tip the balance in favor of the rebels without the need to | Read More »
For today’s open thread, here’s John Stewart breaking down President Obama’s very angry Monday address on the Libya Kinetic Military Action. h/t to Dan McLaughlin for the title
In Barack Obama’s Monday night address on Libya, which took place well over a week after he began waging offensive war on Libya, the president touted the fact that the U.S. military, which had been responsible or the vast majority of military action to that point, would soon be handing off the mission to allies and, apparently, fading into the background to let those allies | Read More »
This is so insane it makes my head hurt. In an interview with NBC News and another with CBS News, Barack Obama is finally admitting some of the rebels we are helping in Libya may not be friendly to the United States. “I’m not ruling it out. But I’m also not ruling it in,” he added on NBC, but cautioned that though Washington’s knowledge of | Read More »
Courtesy of The Cold Equations, here is a handy cheat sheet for dictatorial longevity. Country Prior relations with the US Nuclear weapons program US treatment of country Status of leader Egypt Allied Not significant Pressured ally to step down Permanent vacation Libya Moderately warm lately, despite past difficulties Abandoned under US pressure Bombs away Probably on his way out Syria Strained to hostile Not a | Read More »
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has been duping leftists in Western governments for years into thinking he is Mr. Peace. During the past decade, successive governments in the U.S. and Europe have been genuflecting to Abbas and his Fatah terrorist organization. They have showered the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority with more foreign aid per capita than even any legitimate country. The implicit purpose was to strengthen | Read More »
I am not a fan of the ill considered military action we are currently participating in. As I’ve written earlier the only logical outcome of our actions is to increase civilian casualties by prolonging the conflict, to create unsustainable pockets of resistance within Libya governed by al Qaeda, and to Carterize American foreign policy. I had low expectations for Obama’s speech last night. Incredibly I | Read More »
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