Is Obama calm in the face of crisis? Or braindead? I
Calm or Dead?
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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Same thing with the ongoing Libya crisis, if the US was going to intervene and appear to be impartially protecting protesters against airplanes, that time has clearly passed. The situation now is essentially civil war and intervention at this point would be favoring the conglomerate of rebel forces against the government, hardly pro-democracy protestors. Not saying whether they are right or wrong, civil war is different than what happened in Egypt, so far.
Brain dead – and ungrateful to his base – and idiotic – dope sap nut jerk pig nincompoop and a dog.
The best thing the US government can do for people in Libya – or Egypt or Tunisia or Iraq or Afghanistan or elsewhere – is to stay out of the conflict, not to establish so-called «no-fly zones» or give weapons to protogés in return for concessions and lucrative contracts when and if these clients (remember Saddam Hussein ?) come to power. But this, of course, is completely contrary to the logic of imperial power, in which concern for the people of the region in question only enters the equation in terms of public rhetoric (thank you Ms Clinton). The history of US interventions in the affairs of other countries has hardly qualified it as a moral authoritiy in the field….
Henri