tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post1974114196941125932..comments2024-03-20T16:30:09.690-05:00Comments on The Fifth Column: Rent-A-RangerUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-9868874295570537532011-03-28T13:24:33.595-05:002011-03-28T13:24:33.595-05:00I don't know if they are better than Ghaddafi ...I don't know if they are better than Ghaddafi or not. I would hope that there would be some sort of vetting of that before committing time and treasure to this mission. Who knows about that with the current POTUS though. About Egypt I agree with you that it may certainly get worse. There wasn't anything we could do to hold Mubarek in there. We should have held out aid for more political freedoms years ago.southerncanuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16085994295117079382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-27944785774586169662011-03-28T13:04:22.574-05:002011-03-28T13:04:22.574-05:00What makes you think the people opposing Gaddafi a...What makes you think the people opposing Gaddafi are sweetness and light?<br /><br />Isn't it possible that they are actually worse than Gaddafi?<br /><br />Remember, that's what happened with the Shah - he wasn't a pleasant man, but his successors turned out to be far, far worse.<br /><br />Egypt is already <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/03/egyptian-cleric-on-referendum-the-ballot-boxes-said-yes-to-islamfrom-now-on-islam-will-enter-every-a.html" rel="nofollow">turning out to be much worse</a> than predicted. Why not Libya?Steve Kellmeyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07509461318016670424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-85179179583415468572011-03-28T12:58:56.771-05:002011-03-28T12:58:56.771-05:00I just don't get the conservative responses on...I just don't get the conservative responses on this. Mubarak was on his way out, I don't think Obama was a factor at all. Libya had a chance to turn over (hopefully) to a more pro-Western gov't because the rebels had already taken key cities. All they needed (and still need) was some help. In the Just War schema you have to have a chance of winning. We are not just going to go in and start taking over countries ruled by brutal dictators like Syria when the entire army is on the side of the dictator. Iran's revolution was weak, and did not involve any of its military. They had no hope either. You have to have some skin in the game, and thats what Libya's people have.southerncanuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16085994295117079382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-78762555446351593342011-03-27T15:18:13.904-05:002011-03-27T15:18:13.904-05:00I don't think Hillary got out from under that ...I don't think Hillary got out from under that bus. After four years working for Obama, she has made pretty clear she isn't running for any elective office in the future.<br /><br />Obama neutered Hillary permanently. Whatever else you can say, we won't see any more Clintons in elective office for quite a long time, if ever. <br /><br />And I think birth certificates are going to be pretty important in 2012, if we get the chance to vote.Steve Kellmeyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07509461318016670424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-53873883609699971392011-03-27T15:02:54.863-05:002011-03-27T15:02:54.863-05:00Steve
Check out this video on the subject... :)
...Steve<br /><br />Check out <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAyCdfOXvec" rel="nofollow">this video</a> on the subject... :)<br /><br />As an aside, remember that by the time of the Wikileaks diplomatic scandal, you wrote that Obama finally had the excuse he wanted to throw Hillary Clinton under the bus? Strangely enough, the opposite seems to be happening...or is a certain obscure birth certificate theatening to surface?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com