Category: Libya

Four Americans Killed In Embassy Attack In Libya

Posted on by William Teach

Breaking news, it wasn’t just our ambassador to Libya who was killed yesterday (see previous post) (Fox News) The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other American staff members were killed Tuesday in an attack on the U.S. consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi, the White House confirmed. President Obama, in a written statement […]

 

NBC and Its Monkey Commercials and Edited Videos

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

NBC was forced to apologize as cries of racism were leveled against the network after airing an ad featuring a monkey seconds after African American Olympian Gabby Douglas won the gold for gymnastics. This is amusing seeing as how the same network selectively edited a recording in order to make Floridian George Zimmerman appear to […]

 

What Exactly Have We “Won” In Libya?

Posted on by John Hawkins

Who would have ever thought that less than 10 years after 9/11, an American President would be using our military to help Al-Qaeda fighters gain power in another nation. Yet, that’s exactly what’s going on in Libya today. …Mr al-Hasidi insisted his fighters “are patriots and good Muslims, not terrorists,” but added that the “members […]

 

Union’s Battle Against Ohio Heats Up

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On November 8, Ohioans will go to the polls to vote on a series of ballot initiatives, among them Issue 2. A yes vote will support Governor Kasich’s collective bargaining reform (SB 5) to become law. A no vote would return power to the bloated, thieving unions to do hat they have always done: steal […]

 

Libya: Airpower, SOF and the NTC

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

Nick Prime gets his cherry popped over at das Elkus gruppen’s “Fear, Honor and Interest” (a group hug strategic website featuring sev cutting edge all stars) with a delish bit about Libyavention and future ‘ventions. Wild Blue Yonder + De Oppresso Liber = Victory! If such limited contributions of men and resources could achieve such […]

 

Regime Changing

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

Perhaps the most charming charm Great Satan has exhibited (aside from angling her body diplopolitaire’ to create other angles) is the killer cool heap of trashed out despots, dicts and autocrats she’s tossed on the junk heap since the new millennium broke unto us. The guy with one eye (hot rumours whisper he’s a moped […]

 

After Khadaffy Quickie

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

Götterdämmerung! As the world’s longest ruling despotry crashes in a mini orgy of undisciplined rowdiness, firefights with searches for the Amazonian Guard and their “Lil Poppa” – it’s time to get real. : Real fast. And that means (all together luv!):  Boots on the ground. Libya’s especial weapon caches need to be captured, controlled or sweetly […]

 

Somehow The Possible Success In Libya Is Bad For The GOP

Posted on by William Teach

It’s an interesting dichotomy: there was bipartisan condemnation against the actions against Libya, for a multitude of reasons, such as wondering why we were getting involved when it had no national security implications, that it seemed to be a means to keep oil flowing into France and Britain from Libya, and Obama’s failure to consult […]

 

Killing Gaddafi Isn’t The End, It’s Just The End Of The Beginning

Posted on by John Hawkins

But here’s what (Obama) may not have taken into consideration: The perception trap. We’re involved in Libya and Obama will ultimately be judged not just around the world, but here in the United States, on how it turns out. So, despite the fact that the best thing Obama could do at this point would be […]

 

R2P Or Not 2P

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

Totally tweetable! New Millennium’s doctrinairish Responsibility To Protect in statecraft moderne can sweetly be – uh – shrunk – to like 3 characters. Perfect for policy cats au courant and future to drop like a mind bomb in nearly any environ! See, a new school concept of the state maintains that states have a primary […]

 

What “Our Side” Is Doing In Libya: 7 Year Old Libyan Rebels

Posted on by John Hawkins

Isn’t it great to be on the same side as Al-Qaeda in Libya, fighting for…something or another — it’s hard to say what exactly. The general excuse was supposed to be that we were helping to protect “civilians.” Course, if the “civilians” happen to be small children, our rebel allies are apparently conscripting them and […]

 

Incoming!

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

Make your brain more bigger with hot deets, big phased cookies and intell dossiers from the cool kids @ Foreign Policy Initiatives Libya Rebels in Libya’s western Nafusa mountain range were less than 50 miles from the nation’s capital Thursday and edging closer to their first significant victory outside their mountain stronghold, pounding the small […]

 

It’s Time To Put An End To Our Libyan Misadventure

Posted on by John Hawkins

Obama never made a real effort to sell the Libyan war to the American people or even to explain why we’re there at all. Since that inauspicious start, Obama has refused to get approval from Congress and has badly bungled the war effort. In other words, we’re mired in a poorly conceived effort, that has […]

 

Sirens Of Isolationism

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

“O Tay Mr Peabody! Set the dial on the Way Back Machine to 1911!” Prob the best descrip of the recent GOP Debatery that CNN King Grunting Guy kept grunting through (yeah – it was kinda gross) “…Mitt Romney sounded not so terribly different from Obama on Afghanistan, with the crucial difference that he wants […]

 

Obama Bombs Bombing Libya

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

Obama has bungled hawkish military action in Libya so badly that even Republicans now appear to be opposing military engagement. While many people have doubts about intervening in the “Arab spring” uprisings sweeping the Middle East, there are a couple of despotic tyrants that most Americans agree must be removed. Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi is […]

 

Libyan Box

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

War Powers! “44 has not sought, and Congress has not provided, authorization for the introduction or continued involvement of Great Satan’s Armed Forces in Libya.:  Congress has the constitutional prerogative to withhold funding for any unauthorized use of Great Satan’s Armed Forces, including for unauthorized chicanery regarding Libya.” Whee! So what? 44’s predecessors have sweetly […]

 

I Agree With Dennis Kucinich On Libya?

Posted on by John Hawkins

Although some people disagree, I think the President does have the right to engage in a mission like Libya without getting Congressional approval first. I also think the “War Powers” Act is dubiously constitutional. That being said, the President does have a Constitutional obligation to get approval from Congress before going to “war.” He also […]

 

Never Saw This Coming: Goals Shift In Libya Kinetic Operation

Posted on by William Teach

I don’t think anyone saw this coming at all. It should be a complete and utter shock to everyone out there, right? President Obama has subtly shifted Washington’s public explanation of its goals in Libya, declaring now that he wants to assure the Libyan people are “finally free of 40 years of tyranny” at the […]

 

Is Cynthia McKinney Committing Treason?

Posted on by John Hawkins

Is this hang-by-the-neck until dead treasonous? If not, it’s awfully close to the line. A former U.S. congresswoman slammed U.S. policy on Libyan state TV late Saturday and stressed the “last thing we need to do is spend money on death, destruction and war.” The station is fiercely loyal to Moammar Gadhafi and her interview […]

 

Lefty Journalist Doubts Libyan Woman’s Gang Rape Allegations

Posted on by Jenn Q. Public

Cross-posted from NewsReal’s That’s What She Said blog. Please follow us on Twitter and subscribe to our feed! Yet again, an oh-so-enlightened left-winger tries to discredit politically inconvenient rape allegations. By now you’ve heard the story of Iman al-Obeidi, the Libyan woman who was dragged off to prison after telling reporters of the vicious gang […]

 

The Good News & The Bad News: Libya Rebels Just Learning How To Use Their Guns

Posted on by John Hawkins

On the one hand, our new allies in Libya are, how can I put this delicately, a wee bit inexperienced. Bernwi, the exterminator, said his father practically ordered him to the front. He bought a Kalashnikov and found a military uniform abandoned by one of Kadafi’s militiamen. He had never owned a gun or fatigues. […]

 

We May Soon Be Bombing Both Sides in Libya

Posted on by Dave Blount

We may have an explanation for Comrade Obama’s inscrutable behavior in Libya. There’s no need to envision a complex, SPECTRE-esque international conspiracy of the sort Glenn Beck is often on the verge of revealing, when our foreign policy is better explained by a single word: incompetence. As NATO takes over control of airstrikes in Libya, […]

 

The Long Term Consequences Of Bombing Libya For Obama: The Perception Trap

Posted on by John Hawkins

One of the problems with getting involved in a country militarily is that the whole business has a tendency to take on a life of its own, one that you don’t always expect, particularly if it’s not clearly defined. Welcome to mission creep, boys and girls. For example, when Reagan bombed Libya, we knew exactly […]