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At midnight tonight, NATO will suspend military operations in Libya.
As fervently anti-war that I am, I say on to Syria.
I find myself becoming more and more anti-monarchial, especially when despots suck the wealth out of a nation with complete disregard for the citizens they are supposed to provide governance for. In the case of Syria, the human rights abuses are intolerable and need to stop.
Libya is an example of what can be accomplished when a GROUP of countries decide they have had enough. Syria has had enough.
You may start seeing NATO troops on US soil if that’s the way you feel. I think there is a flaw in the international political system when you get a whole bunch of countries together and THEY decide what is right for another sovereign nation. The world enters dangerous territory at that point.
I’m all for needed revolution, but not for bullies.
Realpolitik tells me that such a thing is simply not going to happen. Certainly not with the way things stand today, when we have one of the largest and most technically advanced military forces in the world, and not when the risks of invasion that are presented to the rest of the world are taken into account.
Oh, and we have the veto thing going for us on the UN Security Council.
Reality is a good check against theoreticals.
you risk your sovereignty.
your better way goes exactly how…?
The Bushco, Inc. method? Is it OK to beat my kids if I just keep them in the house?
When the people of a country are doing their very best to remove a dictator, if they NEED and WANT and INVITE help, the US has a role there.
It just needs to come from the people and they need to be willing to take leadership and leave us as support–just like Libya.
But it will be challenging for America to cope with the fact that the removal of a brutal regime does not necessarily transform a country into one that desires American-style democracy. There is such a fear of religious government (except, apparently, Israel’s government or a theoretical Christian dominionist President in the US…) in the USA that it is almost impossible for people to accept that the voters in a nation might decide on such a thing. Or a non-democratic government. Or something else entirely.
We should help Syria, but with the understanding that it won’t transform Syria into a subsidiary of the American system of government. Syria must still be allowed to be Syria.
Except the way I remember it, deposing and killing the rulers of Afghanistan and Iraq somehow did not magically end the war or solve those countries’ problems. Maybe we could wait a couple of weeks and see how Libya turns out before adventuring out to depose the next villain of the hour.
Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc’-ra-cy) – a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.
What we have is politicians owned by the rich reducing services for everyone while moving the tax burden onto the middle class.
Wow! Are we impressed?
Doubtful…”saw it in an e-mail,” much more likely.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/…
This is almost precisely what Occupy Wall Street is saying.
You ought to avoid making assumptions that everyone agrees with you on the definition of producers since I for one think that a producer is someone who produces something, as in making things for wages as opposed to those that simply manipulate finances and sit back waiting for investments to grow.
That is if you’re not making an anti-corporate point. Otherwise, good on ya
yeah folks, ‘turd and his ilk incapable of orginal thought so let’s give a little background from Daily Kos-Mar 02, 2006: A New Word for the English Language – Ineptocracy.
Here’s what I love about these idiots – somebody like ‘turd slurps it up from a daily TeaBagger bloghole without realizing origin & use with perfect relevance back in ’06 for Shrub’s admin.
how about a primer for these rightie idiots on sourcing material — oops, that would mean these homeskoolers would have to deal with facts which would just cause a lil’ overload in them brains
Nixon gets impeached for covering up a felony. Clinton gets impeached for covering up a bj.
GW Bush (insert lengthy list of bungles here) earns sobriquet “Worst President Ever”. Obama saves us from Great Depression II, and passes HCR, earning him the same title from PO’d Republicans.
And it hates Ellie (who is one of the nicest and most thoughtful people on here).
The center column, the one with the actual diaries, is sometimes blank when I go to the home page.
Pols, I think soapblox is showing its age. It may be time to shop for another platform…
they are working on their problems.
Ellie/Pita
I’m here to help you….”
Bruce Bartlett – Economist who worked for Republican congressmen and in the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush
one thing the state could do
Ironically, this 2-year, $600,000 study was funded in part (25%) by the Koch brothers.
Ironic, huh?
Maybe next they’ll spend Koch money to develop their own climate model that shows that the warming is anthropogenic.
At some point he has to look after his/her professional reputation.
I think he really was just a skeptic’s skeptic, until he had the time and funding to verify it for himself. As ajb noted, Muller still hasn’t accepted the conclusion that the main cause is anthropogenic, only that the data on warming is correct.
Too bad the Koch brothers are unlikely to cough up any more “good money after bad” to further this particular line of research.
http://www.5280.com/magazine/2…
is that it puts a real life perspective on an issue that people often talk about only in generalities.
The morning after pill, if more readily available back in the day, would have significantly reduced the need for abortions for countless women.
Tomorrow the House votes on H.Con.Res.13 – Reaffirming “In God We Trust” as the official motto of the United States
This is why pansy orangeman Boehner should be afraid of OWS riots — his GOP run House is fuckin’ embarassment. GOP Reps are a vapid putrid mass of spineless obstructionist parasites deserving our profoundest contempt.
This is why the electorate hates the elected but the elected have no shame. Fiddle away Boehner & Cantor & Ryan your days are numbered.
Different ridiculous bills but same screwed up priorities. I’ll agree the GOP is a lot worse, but the problem is from both sides in D.C. (If it wasn’t instead of OWS we’d have a ton of people volunteering to elect Dems.)
This isn’t your normal memorial resolution or post office naming.
spending the day discussing the transportation of monkeys
I’ll agree it’s not highest on my priority list, but monkeys do pose health and environmental risks.
From Retired Republican Ohio Supreme Court Judge Andy Douglas:
We need more real Republicans to speak up and add their voice to reasonable policy and policy that benefits the great majorities of Americans.
I echo your call for more Republicans, like Justice Douglas, to regain their capital letter.
I echo your call for more Republicans, like Justice Douglas, to regain their capital letter.