Charlie Rose

charlizecourriers  04/05/2011 03:39 PM Report

Another meeting of the Good Democrats Club. I particularly liked the use of the word "token." Ah! The joys of another free war in an ever enlarging free world. We can, also, infer that the noose is tightening around the Zionist state. Another pickup game is coming!

robdverity  04/04/2011 05:28 PM Report

Our perpetual imperialism has to be wearing thin in Arabia. Our bullying for bullying's sake - even when the outcome is uncertain to negative (what if all the Libyan tribesperson's goal in life is the destruction of Israel?). Obama is blowing his blackness advantage to the rest of the world. He is merely another Geo. W in an all too convincing disguise. Unfortunately, he will be reelected. The electorate is no smarter than the elected.

REMant  04/04/2011 10:29 AM Report

There are a lot Americans I notice on websites, who, now that the president seems to have underscored his Middle East doctrine, are ready to blow everything up everywhere. As should have been expected, the Libyan govt has started to fight a guerrilla war and I think it will continue even if Qaddafi and co leaves the scene. But I don't think it was expected, and this looks to me as having been a reprise of the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, with CIA trying to get the job done with rebels supported by air power, including exclusively anti-personnel weapons like AC-130 gunships. Arming them, however, would set a powerful precedent. I welcomed the statement Friday that NATO would now protect civilians no matter which side appears to be attacking them, altho I don't know exactly how they are going to figure that out, but the question seems moot, because I see no evidence of a change in "coalition" behavior. Also irrelevant is the defense now commonly heard that as long as American boys are not over there, none of this matters. Well, obviously, from the repercussions seen around the world, no less than here at home, it matters a lot. The triumvirate no doubt had the phrase "all necessary means" inserted just so they could do what they like and that's what they've been doing, the military commanders sounding quite pleased with themselves about it, too. This is the kind of subterfuge we have seen regularly from American presidents since Eisenhower, part of the post-Vietnam strategy of eliminating reliance on the draft, so that a mercenary army could be created, paid for by deficit spending and printing money, all kept out of the public eye, and justified via a treaty creating a world police body, which seems to care little or nothing for justice. If the UN is going to be a world govt, it ought to be organized with the checks and balances of one, not as a rubber stamp for colonialism.

Afghanistan, itself, ten years later, seems to have turned into a slow-motion Vietnam, and ppl are starting to make arguments like peace with honor, why don't we invade Pakistan, and so on. I wonder if the Afghans will be better off with us or without us, and how much retribution there will be when we do leave. I keep hearing that if the war lords wanted to, they could easily lick the Taliban, but I wonder if they can therefore be controlled, as seems to be Karzai's (like Diem's) strategy.