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.
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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.
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”
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.
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
“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.
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.
A World in Disarray
The United Nations has devolved into a cesspool of evil and irrelevance.
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
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.