Posts from — April 2011

And dumb as dirt – that’s the Congress of the United States.

Doctors Without Borders sends out world maps with its fund raising letters. If I had the money I would pay them to send a world map to all 535 members of Congress. It probably wouldn’t do any good, as envelops are probably too intricate for them to deal with.

Mustang Bobby wrote:

Rep. Tom Marino (R-PA) is a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the House subcommittee on issues related to U.S. policy in Africa. So eyebrows went up when he expressed his concern about our role in Libya:

Where does it stop? Do we go into Africa next? I don’t want to sound callous or cold, but this could go on indefinitely around the world.

Mustang Bobby was tipped off by The Washington Monthly, and there were people in the comments at the Monthly actually saying that they could understand the confusion because Libya is considered part of the Middle East.

The only people who think that Libya is part of the Middle East are those that are as ignorant as Marino.

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I mean, who else could present the reality of Nicolas Sarkozy in the film version of the Libyan adventure.

I’m telling you that Sarkozy has already had the second fitting for the flight suit he’s going to wear when he lands on the deck of the Charles de Gaulle. He has probably had a “Mission Accomplie!” banner in his closet since the second day of air strikes.

Here’s the bovine excrement that is being proposed to make arming the Libyan rebels “legal”:

The arms embargo was established by UN Security Council Resolution 1970 in February, but the no-fly zone was established by UNSCR 1973 in March. Since UNSCR 1973 gives those enforcing the no-fly zone wide latitude to “protect the civilian population”, it overrides the limitations imposed by UNSCR 1970.

The NATO Secretary General has diplomatically said “Horse pucky”. The NATO council doesn’t really want to even discuss it. Not one of the defense chiefs of any of the NATO members supports this view.

Sarkozy is the cheerleader for this concept, and you have the US Secretary of State, and UK Foreign Secretary talking like this isn’t the stupidest idea to come down the pike since Dubya was in the White House. You do not protect the “civilian population” by handing out a lot of stuff that explodes and kills people to a bunch of amateurs who know next to nothing about weapons.

It is bad enough when people are intentionally killed in wars, but handing ordnance to the untrained Libyan rebels will result in people dying by accident.

The goal of this operation is “protecting civilians”. Arming the rebels doesn’t require a legal defense, it requires a real moral justification.

Oh, this thing is now officially know as: Unified Protector. [NATO really needs some marketing people. Maybe they could hire the guys who do the GEICO ads.]

A ‘Brave’ Front

No sense of humor.

[Editor: Brave is taking a break from annoying other cats, after nearly getting gutted attempting to engage Molly and Ringo in a little “rough and tumble”. Neither was amused. Extra points for athleticism in aborting attacks at the last second.]

Friday Ark