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Excerpt: "The latest challenge comes from the deteriorating situation in Libya, where the rapid advance of forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi threatened the defeat of rebel forces. Our natural tendency is to want to help end Qaddafi's despotic rule and to save the lives of those bravely resisting his onslaught. But it is a difficult challenge to take action that has a reasonable chance of success but that does not arouse popular - and well-founded - suspicions of neoimperial intervention."

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+3 # ritaague 2011-03-20 02:05

"...diplomatic and economic, not military." How that prophetic (a.k.a. truthful) humanitarian based and oh so correct assessment must send chills down the spines of our villainaire rulers here in the "MICT'ed" (military -industrial - corporate - terrorism) U.S. of (greed and power) A.(ddiction).

Whatever will the Koch's and all their Koch suckers, and Bush's and their Bushwhackers, who have made their fortunes off of oil, oil, oil, and war, war, war since WWI, do if this country of ours, in which they've pulled off their evil coup d'etat, goes into actual peace mode?

Guess they'll have to come up with "another Pearl Harbour", as neo-cons did after wishing for exactly that (it's verifiable) in the late '90's, and then coming up with 9/11 shortly after their low I.Q. puppet whore, George W., was scammed into office.

Time for we the sheeple to wake up to all the karlroving, and work like hell (thank you, great Wisconsin activists, for showing us the way) to UNDO THE COUP, and yell out, over and over again: VILLAINAIRES, GO TO HELL!!

+4 # rm 2011-03-20 04:05

What an idiotic editorial. A little research would reveal the role of the CIA and its many front organizations (NED, Soros' OSI, Freedom House, Twitter, Google, and more) in creating the so-called revolutions in the Arab world. This is not to say there are not many legitimate grievances against the dictatorial governments, but CIA revolutions will only lead to one bad result -- death, destruction, and more vicious dictators.

The right context in which to see these events is Bush's executive order authorizing the CIA to operate in 80 nations in order to bring about regime change. In Libya, the CIA working through and arming Mujahadeen mercenaries, Eqyptian army, and Libyans still loyal to King Idris is causing the violence. If violence is a reason to bomb someone, then these rebels should be bombed.

Remember Philip Agee called the CIA Capitalism's Invisible Army. It is invisible because the press is too cowardly to mention it. The press like the Nation twist history into knots in order to avoid mentioning the CIA.

+9 # Kayjay 2011-03-20 09:34

For the U.S., the world today is beginning to resemble a global game of "whack-a-mole." It seems that long after George W declared "Mission accomplished", we are at long last purportedly standing down in Iraq. But I'm sure some of the military and industrial lobbyists view this as bad for business, as now... KACHING... there is a new brushfire in the mideast. Remember the old days? I won't call them good as the Soviet Union was a oppressive communist dictatorship. But their mere stage presence prevented today's conga line of U.S. led military solutions. Back in the old Cold War days, some called Ronald Reagan "trigger happy". But his most notable incursion was the invasion of Grenada in 1983. But back then there was another bully on the block. These days the U.S. is the sole bully, and for some it's good for business.

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