Defense Secretary: No National Interests In Libya. Hillary Clinton: Yeah, But Libya Is The Same As 9/11
By: streiff (Diary) | March 27th at 07:08 PM |
I don’t watch the Sunday talk shows because rarely is anything of substance discussed or revealed on them. I suppose fifteen years ago they set the tone for the upcoming week’s media coverage, but today they are a superfluous exercise that has little value beyond providing a subsidy to the hair spray industry. Sometimes, though, an interview comes along that is so disastrous that it | Read More »
US Allies With Al Qaeda In Libya
By: streiff (Diary) | March 27th at 04:39 PM |
As we’ve noted over the past weeks, we know precious little about the alleged “rebels” on whose behalf we’ve intervened in Libya. Now a little more information is available: In an interview with the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, Mr al-Hasidi admitted that he had recruited “around 25″ men from the Derna area in eastern Libya to fight against coalition troops in Iraq. Some | Read More »
Muslim Brotherhood Becoming Dominant in Egypt
By: streiff (Diary) | March 25th at 07:59 PM |
Someone once observed that a liberal’s life consists of confronting one unexpected suprise after another. I think it is safe to say that the same can be said of the typical Ivy League foreign policy wonk, to the extent they are different groups of people. A lot of people of all political persuasions were excited by the “Jasmin” revolution that started in Tunisia and spread, | Read More »
Arming Libyan Rebels
By: streiff (Diary) | March 25th at 12:00 PM |
The Libyan operation would have nearly a comic opera quality were it not for the fact that people are needlessly getting killed because of the fecklessness of the Obama Administration. As we pointed out yesterday, our motive for going into Libya has absolutely nothing to do with establishing a less repressive regime, the rebels are happily engaged in the slaughter of their enemies and carrying | Read More »
The Obama Doctrine And Syria
By: streiff (Diary) | March 24th at 07:51 PM |
As events unfold along the Mediterranean rim the governing strategy behind US foreign policy, the Obama Doctrine, becomes increasingly clear. On the heels of supporting an insurrection managed by the Muslim Brotherhood against Hosni Mubarak, we have undertaken an ill-conceived military assault in favor of a racist and islamist insurrection against a ridiculous nonentity… a military assault our “allies” seem to be abandoning faster than | Read More »
The Racist Revolt in Libya
By: streiff (Diary) | March 24th at 03:24 PM |
Now, with respect to our national interests, the American people and the United States have an interest, first of all, in making sure that where a brutal dictator is threatening his people and saying he will show no mercy and go door-to-door hunting people down, and we have the capacity under international sanction to do something about that, I think it’s in America’s international — | Read More »
Okay. We’re Bombing Libya.
By: streiff (Diary) | March 21st at 12:00 PM |
Now what? After playing Hamlet for a period of some weeks, a supremely disengaged President Obama has been nagged into action on Libya. Over the weekend, US and allied forces hit Libya with a barrage of cruise missiles which was followed up by airstrikes directed not only at infrastructure supporting the Libyan air force but also against the Libyan army What has been more notable | Read More »
Srebrenica Resurrected
By: streiff (Diary) | March 18th at 04:10 PM |
Today, after some weeks of shillyshallying, President Obama made the momentous decision to sort of do something halfway in response to the revolt against and attempted ouster of Muammar Qaddafi. The president said Qaddafi must stop his troops from advancing on Benghazi, pull them back from key areas of the country, allow for humanitarian assistance to reach Libyans, and make sure his people have access | Read More »
Ron Paul Brings The Crazy
By: streiff (Diary) | March 16th at 01:03 PM |
Yesterday I posted, for the second time, on why I think intervention by the United States in Libya is a monumentally bad idea. Needless to say, I was concerned that time and space would temporarily bend and I’d find myself in alignment with Ron Paul (Cuckoopants – TX) and his band of merry nincompoops. This would have required me to spend a couple of weeks pretending | Read More »
More Pennsylvania Abortion Shops Shuttered
By: streiff (Diary) | March 15th at 08:06 PM |
When the story of the abortion shop cum abattoir run by Philadelphia doctor Kermit Gosnell hit the press in January the nation was shocked by the near medieval conditions encountered by women seeking access to the “safe, legal, and rare” procedure which kills over a million children each year. As we noted at the time, the conditions in Gosnell’s facility was not an aberration, rather | Read More »
Answers From A Non-Interventionist
By: streiff (Diary) | March 15th at 04:01 PM |
About the same time as I posted a diary against the idea of US military intervention in Libya, George Will wrote a column challenging those in favor of said intervention to answer a series of questions about what they were truly trying to achieve. Now David Frum has posed a series of questions to those of us who are against the intervention. I’ve decided to | Read More »
Military Intervention In Libya Is A Bad Idea
By: streiff (Diary) | March 8th at 12:53 PM |
One of the immutable laws of politics is that the Democrat party will refuse to use military intervention in any location where the US has strategic geopolitical or trade interests. The corollary to that law is that there is no Third World craphole (see Somalia, Darfur, Haiti) to which the Democrats will not offer to send US troops so long as it is high risk | Read More »
Bob Woodward Pwned by Donald Rumsfeld
By: streiff (Diary) | March 4th at 04:13 PM |
One of the interesting phenomena in Washington politics is the collection of little men who make a living taking shots at great men. Never has that been more in display than in the recent Bob Woodward critique of former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s book Known and Unknown on the blog former Washington Post defense correspondent Tom Ricks tries to run at the Foreign Policy | Read More »
The Goofy Attacks On Glenn Beck
By: streiff (Diary) | February 25th at 02:00 PM |
Of late a garden industry has developed amongst some alleged conservatives and all variety of squishes — they seem to be calling themselves “thoughtful conservatives” to distinguish themselves from the rest of us — criticizing Glenn Beck. Why alleged political pundits would worry about Beck’s show I haven’t any idea. He’s an entertainer with a significant business, they aren’t. In the interests of full disclosure | Read More »
Washington Post Pans High Speed Rail
By: streiff (Diary) | February 17th at 01:00 PM |
Last week we covered an Obama regime Winning The Future moment, their shameless boosterism of high speed rail as though our national future depended upon it. Even though the regime has proposed to flush another $53 billion into what can only be described as the vanity project from Hell it appears commonsense has taken control. Three governors, Rick Scott (FL), Scott Walker (WI), and John | Read More »
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