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Perpetual war and mayhem continue to be official DC policy, and damn the consequences, such as increased risk of terrorism and spiralling debt. The US will not keep its nose out of other people’s business, and it just can’t help it.
That’s exactly what Obama said last night in his totally unconvincing speech:
The US will intervene when it can and when massacres loom, Obama said. The responsibility of world leadership calls for no less, according to the president.
“Some nations may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in other countries. The United States of America is different,” said Obama.
Pointing to this statement, Duke University political science professor Peter Feaver said, “That is a fairly artful embrace of American exceptionalism and of the doctrine of preemption.”
So the US is recklessly wasting borrowed money to fight a war which even its Secretary of Defense admits is not in our interest, which supports “rebels” whose allegiance is to al-Qaeda, and which Americans did not want to get involved in. Obama all but admits he cynically used the UN resolution to protect Libyan civilians as a cover to interject the US into yet another war — and we sit by passively and accept this?
And now our handlers want to expand the war by arming the rebels. That settles it — insanity is now the real guiding principle of the collapsing DC Empire. “American Exceptionalism” means that the US, unlike other nations, pursues self-immolation as a moral imperative. As Denis McDonough, Obama’s deputy national security adviser, told reporters on Monday, “We don’t make decisions about questions like intervention based on consistency or precedent.” Amen to that.
Besides, if a blood-crazed chickenhawk like Bill Kristol is happy with Obama’s policy, then you know it’s a terrible idea.
Thaddeus on 29 Mar 2011 at 10:10 pm #
This is truly evil. I have no other word for it. Evil.
The lone comfort that anyone could formerly have taken from the Obama election (and it was a meagre one) was the belief that at least he wasn’t going to be a mad, “invade the world” bomber appeasing Israel and starting wars in the Middle East, like Bush. Isn’t that how he campaigned?
Now what does he turn out to be, but an “invade the world” bomber starting wars in the Middle East.
Putin likened this to a “crusade,” and that wasn’t exaggerated rhetoric. That’s what this really is.
So where does anyone of good conscience go? Now both parties, literally, are saying the same thing. What happened to democracy being about “choice”? Where’s our choice? We can vote for one of two parties, both of which are imperialists.
And this democracy-without-choice is supposed to be a better system than what we’re toppling?
HarrisonBergeron2 on 30 Mar 2011 at 1:26 am #
Thaddeus,
Shhh! We’re not supposed to question our betters.
Thaddeus on 30 Mar 2011 at 9:17 pm #
At Alternative Right, Mark Hackard has a great essay about the situation
http://www.alternativeright.com/main/blogs/exit-strategies/in-leviathan-s-shadow/
I don’t exactly think of Qaddafi as a hero, but it’s hard not to side with him in this situation. On a basic level, it’s not a fair fight, when the U.S. seems determined to rig the outcome. And even despite all of the U.S. propaganda, and the withering air strikes, Qaddafi still hangs in. If nothing else, that shows guts.
Weaver on 31 Mar 2011 at 12:08 pm #
Thaddeus,
that is a true rad trad article! I’ll have to catch up at Alt Right.
Thanks for linking.
roho on 01 Apr 2011 at 9:45 pm #
It’s not complicated…….Be it GOP or Democrat, all US Presidents answer to the New World Order.(If that name seems cospiratorial, simply insert Global Banking.)…………The “Likudniks” expect to control everything from the Nile to the Euphrates river!……And it shall be accomplished with gentile soldiers. What’s not to understand?…………..God screwed up by not giving the “Chosen Ones” oil, and they must fix God’s screw-ups.