This Is How I know Our Libya Involvement Is A Joke

In a word: Sudan.

The United Nations has reported heavy bombardment by North Sudanese warplanes during the past week in areas surrounding the towns of Kadugli and Kauda in the troubled state of Southern Kordofan, with planes dropping at least 11 bombs on an airfield close to a UN camp. The UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) said it was extremely concerned over the bombing campaign which, it said seems indiscriminate and has caused great suffering to local civilians and disrupted humanitarian assistance.

UNMIS reiterated its call all parties to the conflict to immediately allow access to humanitarian agencies, stop indiscriminate military attacks against civilians, and respect and protect them as required under international law.

If I recall correctly, our reasoning for entering the conflict in Libya was "to protect civilians." So if the leaders of Sudan are openly and indiscriminately bombing civilians, displacing up to 70,000 so far, shouldn't we at least be hearing about it from the President or the evening news?

Is It Too Early To Declare Failure in Libya?

More than a month after we started bombing, the insurgency has suffered a string of defeats. The government in Tripoli suddenly looks as permanent as the Sahara.

The U.S., after handing off the combat responsibilities to other countries, got pulled back in last week to launch drone attacks. Britain and France are sending military advisers to try to turn the rebels into a semblance of a real army.

These forces are not only poorly trained and badly led but grossly outgunned. As a New York Times reporter on the scene noted Thursday, "Taken together, the rebels' mismatched arsenal and their inexperience and lack of discipline have made achieving the revolution's military goal extraordinarily hard." If not a failure, this effort is certainly not a success.

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Egypt Headed for Sharia Rule, War With Israel

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So When Do We Start Bombing Syria?

With hundreds of civilians dying, tanks rolling through the streets, snipers keeping people from clearing dead bodies and soldiers occupying cemeteries to prevent burials, you would think Obama would jump at the opportunity to "prevent civilian casualties" as was our stated goal for Libya. So what is different about this situation? Not enough oil? Don't want to piss of the real powers of the Middle East? Someone please tell me why we aren't lifting a finger there other than the threat of financial pressure (which soon won't even be a threat either).

Age of America Nears End

Chinese Economy to Surpass U.S. by 2016

For the first time, the international organization has set a date for the moment when the “Age of America” will end and the U.S. economy will be overtaken by that of China.

And it’s a lot closer than you may think. According to the latest IMF official forecasts, China’s economy will surpass that of America in real terms in 2016 — just five years from now.Put that in your calendar. 

It provides a painful context for the budget wrangling taking place in Washington right now. It raises enormous questions about what the international security system is going to look like in just a handful of years. And it casts a deepening cloud over both the U.S. dollar and the giant Treasury market, which have been propped up for decades by their privileged status as the liabilities of the world’s hegemonic power. 

According to the IMF forecast, which was quietly posted on the Fund’s website just two weeks ago, whoever is elected U.S. president next year — Obama? Mitt Romney? Donald Trump? — will be the last to preside over the world’s largest economy. 

Most people aren’t prepared for this. They aren’t even aware it’s that close. Listen to experts of various stripes, and they will tell you this moment is decades away. The most bearish will put the figure in the mid-2020s. But they are miscounting.

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Good News on the Libya Situation

Defense Secretary Robert Gates Says Arming And Training Of Libya Rebels Should Be Role Of Other Countries, Not U.S.

The U.S. should avoid developing a closer relationship with Libyan opposition forces, defense leaders said Thursday, telling an often hostile Congress that foreign nations must now take over airstrike responsibilities and any effort to train and equip the rebels.

With the U.S. role in Libya at a turning point, the next critical decision is how, if at all, the U.S. chooses to support the opposition forces, particularly in the face of the ongoing budget crisis at home. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he is opposed to arming the rebels, a step his boss President Barack Obama has not ruled out.

Let's see if it pans out that way.

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Nato air strike kills civilians in Afghanistan

Ooooops! I guess we are only protecting civilians in Libya? See, this is what happens when you try to kill people...people die. Is life precious? Is life sacred? Or is only certain life precious and sacred?

Western forces have accidentally killed civilians in an air attack in the Afghan province of Helmand, after mistaking them for Taliban fighters. 

Nato said it ordered the attack on Friday, after hearing that a Taliban leader and several of his subordinates were traveling in two vehicles.

Troops later found an unspecified number of dead and wounded civilians at the scene in Naw Zad district.
Nine people died in a Nato air strike in eastern Kunar province this month.

Afghan officials said the victims of that raid were children collecting firewood.

It led the US troop commander in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus, to make a public apology.

Should Obama's Nobel Peace Prize be revoked?

Bolivia's President thinks so. Others disagree. One critic writes "Until the Peace Prizes for Arafat and Iranian nuclear stooge Mohamed ElBaradei are revoked, I don’t want to hear anything about Obama’s."

Still though, it's hard to understand how Obama can authorize and lead an air assault (and potentially a ground invasion) on a sovereign nation with very little cause and zero provocation. So we are basically backing a small group of rebels to overthrow Qaddafi? Haven't I seen this movie before. I gave it a thumbs down then, and I give it two thumbs down now.

With all the questions surrounding this latest action in Libya, one question remains. What is the endgame? No one has been able to answer that one.

U.S. and Friends Strike Libya

Here we go again. I'm sure we'll make lots of new friends in the Arab world by attacking yet another country. A country that doesn't like us. A country that for the most part has been loyal to it's leader for the last 42 years. A country that had almost squashed it's rebellion.

And now we go a-bombing. Why?

Let's say there was an armed rebellion and insurrection in this country. Would the military or national guard try to squash it? I'm guessing yes.

Do we need Libya's oil that badly? Or are we REALLY trying to protect a few Arabs that probably really don't like us while destroying parts of their country and infrastructure?

Sharia saves the day. Or does it?

US privately backs Pakistan's "Sharia Law for peace" deal with Taliban

So perhaps you've heard about the US spy in Pakistan that shot and killed two Pakistani spies? But, he was standing on US Embassy property at the time so presumably he would have 'diplomatic immunity.' First let me say, if all involved were truly spies, then they knew what they signed up for. But secondly, Mr Raymond Davis gunned down two men in broad daylight in their own country and now their court system says 'let him go.' Why? Simple. Because sharia law says if you pay 'blood money' to a victim's family and they forgive you, then it's all good. That's nice in theory, and I'm sure there are many families that have forgiven a criminal his actions against them. But that doesn't mean you let the criminal go. Or does it? Just pay someone off and you're free? Raises a lot of interesting (and scary) scenarios. O in this case, pay some money to the enemy, the ones we supposedly hate, and they will be cool with you, fora while. Heck,Pakistan outlawed plastic bags, maybe they do know what's up.

Now you tell me what is right. The official decision may have made nice for political relations, but it has already ignited protests in the very streets where this law is the law of the land. If the the Pakistani's are rejecting it, who among you endorses sharia law?