Friday, July 15, 2011

U.S. Recognizes Rebels in Libya

The story's at New York Times and Memeorandum.

At the video is a portion of the president's March 28th speech. "Regime change" isn't mentioned, although that was the plan all along:

I wouldn't have authorized this deployment, but if you're going in don't lie about it. That's what I hate about R2P. It's so dishonest, but amounts to virtually the same logical outcome as democracy promotion policies. But if it's launched under a Republican president the "world community" rises up in arms at the "threat" of another "Hitler." When a Democrat does it it's "humanitarian intervention."

See: "'Saints Go Marching In': David Rieff at The National Interest."

Side Note: One more thing about R2P: Samantha Power invoked the doctrine for the invasion of Israel, which is just sickening to think about. Democrats will do that.

1 comments:

Foxmuldar Blog said...

Why back the Rebels when we don't even know who they are. We backed the rebels in Egypt and we saw how they felt about our help by brutally raping Lara Logan. Muslims can't be trusted no matter what side they are on. Better to let them kill each other off rather then have them united with one goal of world domination.