Get the Hell Out of Afghanistan!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/08599206325700

Forget about all the women in Burkas.  That is their culture and their religion as soon as our tanks are out of there, the men will impose their tyranny again.  Eventually the seeds sown by USA will germinate and flourish and the women will take care of themselves.  Sad that it will take a long time but that is the way in very rural areas worldwide.  Forget about the Afghan people.  We have one misguided person in Florida who burns a Koran and the Afghans kill eight people in reprisal.  Noteworthy is that the Florida burning didn’t inflame hatred until our supposed ally Karzai raised it as a rally point for muslim bigots.  Forget about the Taliban.  They are a political party of muslim zealots who want Sharia law in Pakistan ( nuclear power) and Afghanistan.  Hey, if the people are going to allow themselves to be beheaded by a bunch of overly zealot Moslem terrorists.  What are we supposed to do about it.  Really!  We are thousands of miles and a thousand years away from them.  You know, all the things that our USA government is doing there used to be handed by Christian missionaries who brought food, medicine, education and Western progress to benighted rural area’s of the world.  The correction of Afghan cultural and religious issues is not a USA government or even a USA people problem.  It is their problem.  Stop the war.  Stop the killing, bombing and aggression.  Bring our troops home now and spend the 60 billion dollar war budget here.  Hey, just give every American a percentage tax break for every billion dollars saved by not fighting a losing battle in Afghanistan.  Obama is wrong to continue and to escalate the war there.  We need to get out.

Why Is Obama a Hater of Gaddafi?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/af_libya

There must be a reason why last year it was okay for the leader of Libya to come to the USA, stay here un harmed and not arrested and to address the United Nations.  But this year he is a Pariah and Obama and his people are doing everything to destroy him?  Obama launched the aggression without consulting Congress but instead he sought permission from NATO and the New World Order government in Brussels to use USA military.  Now he sends envoys to the rebels and their French supported rebel council but he does not send high level ambassadors to Gaddafi.  Now last year he did deal with Gaddafi as the legal head of State and this year he doesn’t.  It’s time for Barrack Obama to get real as a world leader and stop pandering to the likes of French colonialists and British imperialists.  The rebels are their proxies.  It is obvious that the rebels are not able to recruit the civilians into their rebellion.  They also are not of a size to defeat the government forces. Be bold Obama.  Send a high level envoy to Gaddafi and stop the carnage.  And PLEASE no more talk of our negotiating with him but at the same time announcing that the result of the negotiations must be his ouster or demise.  That is really silly.  If you were Gaddafi would you agree to such terms?

Obama Buy Mc Donalds But Citizens Pay

The announcement that Mc Donalds Corporation will hire fifty thousand low paid workers for the fast food chain is good news.  But it comes with a price.  Mc Donalds Corp is exempt from Obama Care.  Now some might say that this is very good government.  But this writer suggests that this is further proof of the crony capitalism of the Obama administration.  You and I are still required to buy into Obama Care.  But the Labor Unions are exempt, Mc Donalds is exempt and the whole State of Maine is exempt!  Is this equal treatment under the law?  It is not, it is a street kid in the White House making deals to make himself look good in time for re election.  But you and I and the small business owners of America are expected to abide by the law and pay the bill.  Shame on Obama.

Libyan Woman Rape Victim?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thecutline/20110405/ts_yblog_thecutline/alleged-libyan-rape-victim-iman-al-obeidi-breaks-through-to-the-international-press

This article and the photograph that accompanies it are remarkable.  Was this woman raped?  Maybe!  Maybe not!  She appeared last week and was apprehended by Libyan Government security personnel;.  I guess that may be their CIA or FBI.  Anyway, she is reported to have appeared before a Government Attorney General and released upon condition of her remaining quiet.  I immediately ask why she was released.  If the allegation of being raped by fifteen Gaddafi personnel was accurate and if his regime is so terribly cruel, why wasn’t she jailed and never heard from again.  Or if the rumors of the cruel Gaddafi people are correct, why wasn’t she raped against and as one blogger put it , “..murdered and fed to pet tigers!!”  So her we have her and I will simply remark upon her western style haircut, (very sophisticated) her designer dress, her jewelry and lipstick and nail polish!   Remarkable.

Ivory Coast Mass Murders but only Words from USA.

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1101333.htm

The USA Administration of Barrack Obama still engages in the brutal attacking of the Libyan government armed forces but give only words to Ivory Coast Mass murders.  This writer does not suggest the USA intervene with boots on the ground in Ivory Coast and not in Libya.  It is my position that the foreign policy of the USA is bigotry against Libya and tolerant toward other dictators who are much worse.  Admittedly, Gaddafi said things like “I will have no mercy” but we do need to remember two things, one was that he faced an armed rebellion whose goal was to kill him and his supporters and the Libyan army. Secondly, like Saddam Hussein before him who claimed to be ready to launch the “Mother of all battles” the Arabs are known to exaggerate reality.  The Daily Beast has an excellent expose’ of the nefarious reasons why the French President wanted to invade Libya.  It should be must reading as to why we do not want to continue killing Gaddafi people anymore.

Why are the Russians Silent?

In the days before the UN resolution authorizing the no fly zone in Libya, the Russian Foreign minister stated that if the USA pursued the no fly zone concept as regards Libya, the Russians would veto it in the Security Council.  Instead, the Russians merely abstained.  However, soon after the NATO aggression against Libya began, Putin stated that the attacks against Libya were barbaric and reminiscent of the Crusades.  However, the President of Russia disagreed and Putin shut up.  It is noteworthy that Secretary Gates visited Russia before the UN resolution.  It is frightening to think that the world may need to depend upon Russia and a veto in the UN Security Council for protection of the rights of sovereign States.  After all, it was the Russians who after WW II were the criminal aggressors against Poland, Czech, etc.  All during those terrible Cold War years the USA constantly invoked the concept of the Sovereign Nation State in order to counter the criminal occupation of the Eastern Block nations.  However, now the USA under Obama’s New World Order ideas, is the aggressor and maybe occupier of another sovereign nation!  Russia has murmured on the side lines since Putin was forced to shut up.  However, the future of the free world may depend upon a former communist dictatorship and not in the USA.  It seems like the Pres. and the Admin.  are willing to bomb and destroy the armed forces of another country all the while declaring that the bombs and cruise missiles and other brutal military weapons are the agents of peace and harmony protecting the so called civilians from bad bad Gaddafi.

Libya- The Inside Story

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110401/ap_on_re_af/af_libya_gadhafi_s_support_2..  

Finally our media are beginning to get the real scene in Libya.  It is a tribal society and the ruler of the nation is dependent upon support of the tribes.  If Gaddafi continues to get the support, (which is the tribe’s choice not ours) then he stays.  If he loses their support then he goes.  Stop the stupid war and get onto the politics of this.

Let’s Help Obama Get Out Of Libya

Get out of Libya.  That is what Secretary of Defense Gates  meant when he addressed the Congressional committee.  Let’s face it, Obama made a mistake and he should be big enough and bold enough to realize it, confess it but above all, he needs to get out of Libya.  We can all help in this.  Our President is very inexperienced and naive about most things and especially about international affairs.  In the case of Libya he made a very big mistake and when the election comes he will be judged, but in the meantime, he is the President and has committed our forces to pursue the wrong policy and engage in the wrong war.  Libya is minimally a rebellion of dissent former army officers and maximally a civil war.  In both cases, the USA has nothing to do with it.  This is even more true when we consider our lack of involvement in the  Ivory Coast where there are thousands of genocidal deaths.  In Libya almost none and definitely none genocidal.  So, what to do?  We need to cut the President some slack, and for now let him off the hook he so foolishly got all Americans onto when he arrogantly pronounced that Gaddafi must go. The President must totally disengage from Libya immediately.  This course of action is in our national self interest.  Additionally, we can encourage Obama to take diplomatic initiatives to impress upon Gaddafi our help if he takes immediate actions to democratize his government.  President Obama’s ideological doggedness should not involve our nation in pursuit of the wrong cause for the wrong reasons no matter how nice a guy we think our smiling President to be.  Rather, in the use of lethal force, we need to encourage our President to stop immediately his ill advised foray into an adventure which is really a third war.

Will Libyan Rebels Kill Civilian Gaddafi Supporters?

As the USA continues it massive bombing, strafing and missile attacks against Gaddafi, the question rises, “Will the rebels just leave the thousands of Gaddafi supporters alone, or will they attack and kill them?  This is a real problem because we already know that fighting has happened between the rebels and civilians supporters of Gaddafi.  So, when the genocide begins and the rebels start rounding up the tribe of Gaddafi, (please remember that this is a tribal society) imprisoning them and or just slaughtering them, what will the USA do?  This issue was raised in the TV news reports today March 31st, and the response of the administration was that then we would attack the rebels!  Really!  How do we excuse that?  Add to this the ridiculous statement made on March 31st by Sec. Gates  that any future Sec. Defense that advised in favor of a land war in Africa or Asia should have his head examined.  Really!  I seem to remember that Gates was 100 % in favor of the invasion (air) and war against (missiles) in Libya.  Is this his honesty showing up, a day late and a dollar short?

US Causes Civilian Deaths Libya

http://thestar.com.my/news/nastory.asp?file=/2011/3/31/worldupdates/2011-03-31T152247Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-560191-1&sec=Worldupdates

The writer of this blog is not a fan of Gaddafi, however, as I have written, the US air strikes against the government of Libya are blatant aggression.  I understand that no American wants to hear such accusations against their government.  But this writer feels that there is just too much go go and rha rha in support of military strikes against Libya.  Every day we hear the talk shows drone on about the need for humanitarian help to the people of Libya.  Well the above website tells of reliable new from the Vatican Rep. in Tripoli that the air strikes are killing innocent civilians.  Also add to this tragedy, the fact that 20 thousand refugees have flooded into Italy from Libya and we see the humanitarian disaster this NO WAR really is becoming.  Folks, let’s be honest, there have been hundreds of thousands of bullets fired from US fighter jets and  attack helicopters.  There have been 212 missile attacks against Libya.  Do you really believe that no body was killed?   No, but you say, that they were Gaddafi’s soldiers.  Well, are the legal soldiers of the government of Libya not human beings?  They are slaughtered from the air by the USA Air soldiers a nation and a people with whom the Libyan soldiers are not at war!  Such behavior on the part of the USA is equal to snipers shooting at the police of New York City.  Peace loving Americans should insist that the government stop this illegal war.  If not, then those same peace-loving Americans should insist that we immediately accept the twenty thousand refugees into the USA-people who are refugees because of USA bombs and missile attacks.