We just don’t know how to avoid World War III. We are so good at alienating whole regions on the globe and at selling arms to whoever wants them that somewhere out there we will round a corner and come up against someone we used to consider a friend pointing one of our guns at us.
Reports proliferate that the US is weighing arming some of the Libyan rebels. OK where is the questionnaire that goes along with the weapons that determines that just the right rebel is being provided with these hellish handouts.? Or are we just going to make a helicopter drop and hope they end up in the right hands?
Mind you, there have been reports since the start of the revolution there that al Qaeda had established an Emirate in the East of Libya but no matter, this will not stand in the way of arming the rebels. Of course our great friend, Britain, is eager to do the same. What kind of a game is being played when you turn the major war operations over to NATO and then enter the arena to pass out arms that could be used against the troops of the member states?
This is not only getting dangerous and complex, it is also getting embarrassing. I hope when Hillary Clinton makes it to London next week she sorts all of this out. The arms industry is huge in Britain and America and they are of course poised to benefit from this latest conflict. It’s the sacred way of the old military industrial complex we have been fighting since Eisenhower’s time. And Republican Senator Mc Cain is out front promoting it .He is carefully saying it won’t be like 1980 when we armed Afghan rebels [azcentral]. Listen to Ike’s warning, John:
Wake up America. We need to have another in-person visit to the Washington Mall to let our President and Congress know that we have had enough of weapons and war when children in this country are starving and in need of good educations. We are angry at Barack Obama for avoiding issues and slipping out of the country. We have our responsibility in this as well and we had better start exercising it in the streets and in the polls.
samiam60
March 26, 2011
I am going to be re-posting this as it is the most relevant of the day. This will be up at the Village for a few hours as I am doing multiple re-post now per day.
samhenry
March 26, 2011
Even one hour is helpful both to the site and to me. Thank you very much.
Bob Mack
March 27, 2011
I also linked to this on my Sunday post, SH. I have no doubt that if Obombya thought he could get away with it, the Islamists would be unpacking crates of fresh new U.S. made weapons tomorrow.
samhenry
March 27, 2011
Obama and the manufacturers are pushing an early death to America by getting involved on the ground in this way. And all of this thanks to the taxpayers. Thank you for your faith in my work. I sincerely appreciate that. SH
bydesign001
March 27, 2011
I simply cannot believe that Obama is considering arming these rebels of which many are jihadists.
How many times must history repeat itself. I remember learning in school that the bombs that Japan used in the attack on Pearl Harbor came from the steel sold to Japan by the United States.
They knew where the steel was going. And they knew its eventual target. Their foresight was soon home out. The Sixth Avenue “El” returned — right on schedule, arriving at stations in the infernos of beaches and jungles with unpronounceable names and battles of unspeakable ferocity.
Have we learned nothing from our mistakes?
samhenry
March 27, 2011
What a wonderful reply, bydesign. Thank you for all you teach us when you come here.
Freedom, by the way
March 27, 2011
bydesign–obviously not. Samhenry–great post. McCain is not to be trusted either. And this is not like Afghanistan–how?
samhenry
March 27, 2011
Thank you Freedom. Thanks for patrolling the area – I appreciate it. LOL I don’t trust McCain farther than the door because he is just old and quirky – more so than I.