I'm starting this tonight and then perhaps it'll go up tonight and perhaps tomorrow.
At war again. And all over blogastan people who claim to be liberals are blathering on about how bad a person that Qaddafi is and how wonderful the people opposing him are. As opposed to the people in the Sudan, or the Ivory Coast, or Bahrain. Hell Libya isn't even where we should be if we want to protect the most people.
People in serious blogs who want to be taken seriously will go on and on about how well you know maybe this time things will be different and after all Qaddafi really is a bad guy so you know. You Know? This way if this works out, not like the others then they might still be listened to down the road, and if it doesn't work out well then they voiced their concerns right at the beginning dontchano.
I don't have to worry about that since I am not taken seriously by the two and a half people who actually read me to begin with.
However, there are some upsides to this (see even I am not immune):
First, perhaps this time we have finally found a third world Muslim country that we can beat and get out living only a minimal number of (our people) dead. Hell it could happen.
Second, there seems to be the advantage that it is impossible to spell Gaddafi's name incorrectly. I've seen it spelled at least four ways with both a G and a Q as the first letter . Blogger spell check gives you Qaddafi, Qaddafi's and Gaddafi's, but no Gaddafi.
Third, I tend to misspell Libya and when ever I do it gives me the giggles like a 13 year old in sex ed class.
If you stack these things up against the for sure facts that we are now responsible for the dead that come out of this and that we cannot afford to keep our social systems working, but we can afford to spend millions (at least) bombing other people to shit, in order to replace an unstable dictator (who dresses badly and rules an oil producing country with someone who will not be so unstable) I'm sure you see where on balance we could not not go to war.
Oh by the way, who else remembers that just two days ago we were arguing about whether or not we should be supporting a no fly zone. Before anything starts we ramp it up.
2 comments:
Your posts are always amusing with just enough self-depracation while informing us about what's going on in the world!
So am I the half person?
Have to admit I've been kinda unsure about how good an idea it is to establish a no-fly zone over Libya, or try to "protect civilians" there. On the one hand, most of the targets of real importance, including just about all the major cities, are close to the sea. That makes it easy.
OTOH, wars never go as planned. They seldom go as anyone has even foreseen them. We already seem to have enough wars we can't get out of. We're also the "crusaders" there, not the heroes, which means the instant anything goes south, people in the area aren't going to give us any benefit of the doubt.
At this point, all I can do is hope we get out quickly, and that somehow someone settles this thing without too much more bloodshed in a way that Libyans will find acceptable.
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