President Obama has a signed a secret presidential finding authorizing covert operations to aid the effort in Libya ...I don't understand. If it's a secret authorization for a covert operation, why is it on ABC News?
Both the White House and the CIA declined comment.So, they don't want anyone to know, but they want everyone to "know"?
This makes no sense to me. Or are we now in the new post-Wikileaks era wherein people expect and indeed enforce total openness from their government? What the hell can be accomplished with that? Ridiculous.
Since you ask, no, I don't think we should help. I get that Gadhafi has been in our sights for a long while and that this is a golden opportunity. But the risks of alienating other nations and creating yet another horrible sink of chaos are huge, and I don't see how the oil companies benefit. Obviously no one else will.
I thought Obama was a smart man and understood the dangers of mission creep. We now know he is a politician of the same stripe as all the others -- some of us understood that all along, of course -- but he's still a smart man and really ought to be doing a much better job of keeping us out of trouble, controlling information, and obscuring the truth.
Unless he really is, and there's something else going on. Well, I hope so. The last thing I want is for everyone to know what my government is really doing.
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Hmmmm...reminiscent of the time Seals landed in Somalia and it was covered live on CNN. Who blabbed?
Do not like. Was OK with doing the coalition bombing thingie. You know we will not just arm, but stick "advisors" in there (i.e., troops) and some will die, plus our stuff will end up in the hands of ppl who actively want to kill us anyway, ugh. WHY??? If the rebels can't make it with some help from the air, they aren't ready, fuck it. What, are we going to spend billions on this over the next however many years? GOD!!!
Give Obama a chance to prove he means it when he says no US troops in Libya. Let's hope he's not as viciously arrogant and short sighted as some of his predecessors.
Personally I think he's following the same program. There'll be no US troops in Libya. That's only discussed because the news media have chosen to treat that occasionally-voiced fear as if it were legitimate, and it serves as a useful distraction. But a program to remake the Middle East in a way that benefits us is evolving, and I think Bush and Obama are front men for the same team.
Is that a bad thing? Well, if the alternative is for power there to coalesce under some religio-fascist nuclearism, no, it isn't. Note how we don't fuck with people so much if they actually try to build some functional sort of democracy.
But just as the strategy is evolving, so is my ad hoc collection of conspiracy theories.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they are not out to get you!
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