{"id":22502,"date":"2011-03-07T09:14:16","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T13:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22502"},"modified":"2011-03-07T09:50:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T13:50:05","slug":"libya-and-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22502","title":{"rendered":"Libya and the Left"},"content":{"rendered":"

The raging civil war in Libya presents itself as a quandary for the anti-war. anti-US Left. it seems that, according to the UK’s Independent<\/a>, the US is urging the Saudis to supply weapons to the Libyan guerrillas;<\/p>\n

The Saudis have been told that opponents of Gaddafi need anti-tank rockets and mortars as a first priority to hold off attacks by Gaddafi’s armour, and ground-to-air missiles to shoot down his fighter-bombers.<\/p>\n

Supplies could reach Benghazi within 48 hours but they would need to be delivered to air bases in Libya or to Benghazi airport. If the guerrillas can then go on to the offensive and assault Gaddafi’s strongholds in western Libya, the political pressure on America and Nato \u2013 not least from Republican members of Congress \u2013 to establish a no-fly zone would be reduced.<\/p>\n

US military planners have already made it clear that a zone of this kind would necessitate US air attacks on Libya’s functioning, if seriously depleted, anti-aircraft missile bases, thus bringing Washington directly into the war on the side of Gaddafi’s opponents. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So the “Peace President” is planning a proxy war in the Middle East, but, according to the Washington Post<\/a>, the Left’s darling in South America, Hugo Chavez is still clinging to his old buddy Gaddafi and warns the world that the US is planning on invading Libya for (whatelse) seizing oil fields (like we have in every conflict since Vietnam with such stunning success);<\/p>\n

Though uncharacteristically quiet as Libya slid into anarchy, Chavez has in recent days venerated Gaddafi for his revolutionary credentials and asserted that the United States is about to invade the North African country to seize its oil. He also convened a meeting Friday in the Venezuelan capital in which his allies, including Cuba, Nicaragua and Bolivia, agreed to a vague peace mission to end the violence in Libya.<\/p>\n

“The countries of the Bolivarian alliance are demanding the United States and the world powers respect the people of Libya,” Chavez said to cheering, red-shirted supporters. “No to imperialist intervention in Libya! No to a new imperialist war that looks for oil over the blood of innocents!” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, Chavez communist buddies in Nicaragua (Ortega) and Cuba (Castro) chime in to support fellow traveler Gaddafi. <\/p>\n

So while Libyans are struggling against a repressive dictator, Code Pink is more worried that Bradley Manning has no clothes. They nearly broke their neck getting to Egypt, they harp about Israel in regards to the Palestinians, but an actual dictator killing his countrymen gets not a whisper.<\/p>\n

The man who told us he’d get us out Iraq during the 2004 campaign, is urging that the Obama Administration begin a “no fly” zone over Libya;<\/p>\n

Mr. Kerry\u2019s support for a no-flight zone was echoed by two Republicans who spoke on the Sunday television news shows \u2014 Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate minority leader, and Senator John McCain of Arizona, the Republican presidential candidate in 2008. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, there’s no accounting for some opinions. <\/p>\n

Personally, I don’t think there’s not a Libyan life worth an American life. All of the bullshit we’ve put up with from the world over Guantanamo, Hussein, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and how much other bullshit in the last ten years. The world would only find a way to blame us for something if we interfered in Libya. Let them murder each other for a few more months until the UN summons the cajones<\/em> to screw it up permanently.<\/p>\n

Either way, whether we do something or not, we’re going to get blamed, so we might as well do the thing that gets fewer Americans killed. That’s also the advice, more or less, that I gave TSO on his wedding day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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