comments from Firenze Sage on article: The Senators Sway
from National Review Online by Andrew L. McCartney April 2, 2011
Do these idiots — Senators McCain, Lieberman and Graham — have any idea of what they are doing?
Obama is astoundingly incompetent. Who did we ditch Mubarack for? How about another Islamic state. Who are the Libyan rebels? Islamic al Queda. Hillary thinks the Saville suited barbarian running Syria is “a reformer”. Yemen is going fast. And on it goes while Obama is thinking of his next Cairo speech.
article from National Review Online titled: The Senators Sway
Before they wanted to kill Qaddafi, they were celebrating in his tent.John McCain, Joseph Lieberman, and Lindsey Graham are the Senateâ€
In a joint interview on Fox last weekend, Senators McCain (R., Ariz.) and Lieberman (I., Conn.) were breathless in their rendering of the “freedom fighters†and the “Arab Spring†of spontaneous “democracy.†Friday they upped the ante with a Wall Street Journal op-ed, rehearsing yet again what an incorrigible thug Qaddafi is and how “we cannot allow [him] to consolidate his grip†on parts of Libya that he still controls.
For his part, Senator Graham (R., S.C.) told CNN Wednesday that he would like President Obama to designate Qaddafi an “unlawful enemy combatant†with an eye toward legitimizing the strongmanâ€
As a matter of law, Grahamâ€
But what about their own blundering? The senators most strident about the purported need to oust Qaddafi, to crush his armed forces, and to kill him if thatâ€
It was only a short time ago, in mid-August 2009, that Senators McCain, Lieberman, and Graham, along with another transnational progressive moderate, Sen. Susan Collins (R., Maine), paid a visit to Qaddafiâ€
A government cable (leaked by Wikileaks) memorializes the excruciating details of meetings between the Senate delegation and Qaddafi, along with his son Mutassim, Libyaâ€
On and on it goes, made all the more nauseating by the reality that nobody was under any illusion that Qaddafi had truly reformed. McCain made a point of telling the press that “the status of human rights and political reform in Libya will remain a chief element of concern.†Note the gentle diplomatic understatement: Qaddafi is — and was, as McCain well knew — a savage autocrat. Yet this brute fact was softened into “an element of concern†regarding “the status of human rights and political reform.†Pretty sharp contrast from the senatorâ€
The above article is from the National Review Online by Andrew C. McCartney titled The Seantors Sway. Comments on the article are by the Firenze Sage.