Post Tagged with: "Libya"

April 1, 2011 14:21

Are Unintended Consequences the Intention?

What’s the shape of our Transformed America? Looking at the government-induced government-sustained Great Recession, the unsustainable debt that grows every day, and the increasing over-extension of our military obligations the now repudiated doctrine of Too-Big-to-Fail may be our last best hope.

April 1, 2011 06:42

Clueless congress – Obama leaves lawmakers in the dark on Libya

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen, faced a grilling in front of Congress over the Libyan campaign. Gates said Washington shouldn’t assist the Libyan rebels, and should instead leave nation-building to other countries.

April 1, 2011 04:50

Krauthammer on Libya: This is keystone cops

“Is this why we send our men and women into battle, to act as a celestial referee of a civil war” “They have not given any answer that is credible”

March 31, 2011 04:16

Obama expands his war to save face

The CIA has sent small teams of operatives into Libya, and the White House said Wednesday it was assessing “all types of assistance” for rebels battling Moammar Gadhafi’s troops.

March 28, 2011 05:51

Libya ‘Not a Vital National Interest to the United States,’ Defense Secretary Gates Says

“No, no,” the Gates replied to ABC’s Jake Tapper. “It was not — it was not a vital national interest to the United States, but it was an interest — and it was an interest for all of the reasons Secretary Clinton talked about

March 28, 2011 05:27

“To Declare [Kinetic Military Action]”

The president certainly can’t derive the authority to bomb Libya from the commander-in-chief clause. As Hamilton explained in Federalist 69, that provision merely indicates that the president is the “first General and admiral” of US military forces. Important as they are, generals and admirals don’t get to decide whether and with whom we go to war.

March 25, 2011 04:53

Krauthammer: Obama’s “Working On Language That Will Disguise A Failure” In Libya

“Absurd” says Krauthammer of the decision to hand over control of Obama’s Libyan war to NATO.

March 24, 2011 04:43

A World in Disarray

The United Nations has devolved into a cesspool of evil and irrelevance.

March 23, 2011 09:27

Obama’s Libyan fiasco – Germans pull forces out of NATO as Libyan coalition falls apart

Deep divisions between allied forces currently bombing Libya worsened today as the German military announced it was pulling forces out of NATO over continued disagreement on who will lead the campaign. – UK Mail Online

March 23, 2011 04:15

Al-Jazeera’s Agenda in Libya and its American Apologists

So why are American academics associating with this terror TV channel? It is a question I have been trying to answer.