Oh Eight Years
I was going to write a nice blog entry about yesterday’s visit to the Left Forum, but someone pointed out this morning that while the United States was attacking Libya, it was eight years to the day after Bush declared war on Iraq.
Sometimes people have difficulty holding incongruous thoughts simultaneously in their minds (a recent example: “Wikileaks is an important, ethical, and good resource that should be protected” AND “Julian Assange may have raped women”). We’re no fans of Gadhafi but the US should not be bombing another country: as we quipped last night, The United States and Europe have been on the wrong side of the last, oh, 100% of interventions in Africa, why the sudden liberal support for this one? I know I’m answering my own question with the use of “Liberal,” but give me a break. It’s this amazing toggle switch between “The CIA has been secretly working with them for years” to “bomb them,” with no other options in between. Imagine a world where the United States and Europe mobilized this level of response for when Israel’s Operation Cast Lead attacked the Palestinians, to say nothing of our own aerial bombardment of the peoples of Iraq and Afghanistan. How criminal is Gadhafi’s bombing; how proud were they of Shock and Awe?
So the history books will read:
March 19, 2003
George W. Bush orders the attack on a small oil rich nation with a murderous jerk for a leader that we used to covertly work with.
March 19, 2011
Barack Obama orders the attack on a small oil rich nation with a murderous jerk for a leader that we used to covertly work with.
Yay hope and change.
