tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post8780173379045919680..comments2024-03-25T13:42:25.771-05:00Comments on Advance Indianaâ„¢: Lugar Speaks Out Against Obama's Open-Ended Military Intervention In LibyaGary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-37947444314420339912011-03-22T14:47:46.693-05:002011-03-22T14:47:46.693-05:00Yes, we're broke, but I never seem to hear Rep...Yes, we're broke, but I never seem to hear Republicans propose saving billions through re-legalizing the millions of things they've criminalized.<br /><br />Complaints of spending, at this point, are hard to be seen as credible.Catohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03341628086158209539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-71584436956012068272011-03-22T12:21:22.758-05:002011-03-22T12:21:22.758-05:00Let's face it. The US is bankrupt. We don'...Let's face it. The US is bankrupt. We don't have the resources to take care of our own people, let alone play policeman for the world. If stability in the Middle East is important, then let the oil sheiks spend their trillions defending their interests.Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-40975338194307746982011-03-22T12:10:27.485-05:002011-03-22T12:10:27.485-05:00What makes this time different? Perhaps a differen...What makes this time different? Perhaps a different President.Catohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03341628086158209539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-76397461192872630922011-03-22T10:24:28.766-05:002011-03-22T10:24:28.766-05:00We sat by and watched people massacred in other co...We sat by and watched people massacred in other countries on the African continent like the Sudan? What makes Libya any different? Their oil?Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-8713085056634364272011-03-22T10:15:19.825-05:002011-03-22T10:15:19.825-05:00Is the moral question dependent upon whether they ...Is the moral question dependent upon whether they will be our ally, or are we allowed to consider whether it is right to let Kadafi annihilate his people with heavy ordnance?Catohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03341628086158209539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-75934071076747788692011-03-22T09:04:55.946-05:002011-03-22T09:04:55.946-05:00We're still talking about a nation of people i...We're still talking about a nation of people in Libya who only last year cheered the release of the Lockerbie, Scotland terrorist who brought down the Pan Am flight that killed 173 Americans. Don't fault us for not picking sides in this losing battle for control of a country that will be our sworn enemy regardless of who is in control.Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-12707649485225436452011-03-22T06:35:52.957-05:002011-03-22T06:35:52.957-05:00Of our now three wars, our action in Libya appears...Of our now three wars, our action in Libya appears to have the greatest moral foundation. We went to war with Iraq and Afghanistan when these countries posed no threat to us and did not attack us. We have made Hells of these countries, killing hundreds of thousands and making millions refugees. Now, Der Spiegel is releasing photos that show our murdering troops posing with corpses taken in sport killings. <br /><br />An Iraqi or Afghani eagerly wishes we never arrived.<br /><br />In Libya, however, we have the Libyan regulars using full mechanized military on small arms forces. Disrupting those attacks prevents widespread slaughter and allows those rebels to live another day.<br /><br />Sadly, Republicans only seem to want to use the military to make things worse and inflict greater death, instead of intervening in places where we could improve our fellow man's lot and prevent true genocide, such as East Timor, Rwanda and Darfur.<br /><br />While it is true that we do not have the money to intervene in Libya, neither do we have the money to keep troops in Germany and Japan, when that war ended 66 years ago; in Korea, when that war ended over 50 years ago; in Afghanistan, where we've been for 10 years; or in Iraq, where we've been languishing for eight years.<br /><br />The Republican complaint at this point is truly hollow and perhaps belies an ulterior motive. Can the CFR not see a strategic interest in Libya? Is the CFR at last openly admitting that it cares not a whit about humanitarian aims?<br /><br />When the CFR sends Lugar to complain about the splinter in one eye, while we have a prodigious mote protruding from the other, one is left only to shake his head at Lugar's ability to make that duplicitous argument with a seeming straight face.Catohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03341628086158209539noreply@blogger.com