A French/US led UN coalition began attacking Qaddafi's forces today in Libya. This is not only a huge mistake, tactically, but also a criminal action.
Side note to histrionic liberal readers: I remember George Bush. I know what he did. I was against invading Iraq before it was cool (incidentally, before we invaded). Along with a few thousand others, I protested on the streets of Washington. Like then, the media is gleefully on board with the current military strike and the public is generally ignorant of anything other than what's happening in sports. But they should care, because this all comes back, economically and politically.
First, a word on the nature of the conflict. This is an armed rebellion against Qaddafi, contained in Libya. The UN has no jurisdiction, and the president of the United States has no constitutional power to send our country to war. While the media gladly echos the official reasoning that military intervention is to "to protect innocent civilians" (
Example /
Example), they simultaneously report that governments are considering weapons shipments to rebels and that, just today, "innocent civilians" lost a fighter jet.(!)
NBC News' Jim Maceda told the TODAY show that it was later revealed that the jet was one of those captured by the rebels. He said it was not clear if it was shot down by Gadhafi's forces, rebels on the ground by mistake or simply had suffered a mechanical failure. Source
To summarize, that's an "innocent civilian"
fighter jet that was, incidentally, flying
in violation of the UN Security Council resolution establishing a no-fly zone. Of course, the reporting doesn't address that obvious inconsistency - but rather echoes the same BS that Qaddafi is targeting "innocent civilians" rather than armed combatants.
From THE SAME
article:
The strike came less than two hours after top officials from the United States, Europe and the Arab world agreed in Paris to launch a risky military operation to protect civilians from attacks by Gadhafi's forces.
...the aim of Western powers was to protect civilians.
The head of the rebel National Libyan Council, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, said the international community must act swiftly to protect civilians from Gadhafi's forces.
"We appeal to the international community, to the all the free world, to stop this tyranny from exterminating civilians."
"The international community is late in intervening to save civilians from Gadhafi's forces."
Meantime, hundreds of cars full of civilians headed out of the city, a Reuters correspondent said.
They have fighter jets!!!! Don't pretend you know what's going on over there given reporting like this.
It is MADNESS.
Qaddafi is putting down a rebellion. As recently as last week, our free press was issuing propaganda that Qaddafi had fled to Venezuela, was asking for a buy-out, and/or was pathologically delusional.
He seemed to be in complete denial about the protests against him, and that other big cities in Libya, particularly those in the east, had been taken by his opponents.
He simply rejected the notion that any walls were closing in on him. He denied he was besieged in the capital and said he would survive the current situation.
ABC News
What a wacko! Wait, he was right? Eh...
Actually, I don't care if he's crazy or not. I don't care if the rebels are good or bad. The reality is this whole conflict has been distorted from day one by the worldwide media. Information is missing and what we have is unabashedly biased. But now we are engaged in ANOTHER illegal/illegitimate war with another Muslim country. Hey, Democrats, can you say "hypocrisy?"
"Yes We Can!"
End of the world 2012? I think the Mayans overshot.
