GOP Trying To Get Mideast Crisis Into U. S. Federal Budget: While There Is Time!

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Two More Weeks! Two More Weeks!

The Basis-Free Invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, still have GOP-backing as U. S. budgetary items that should not go unfunded, even now. The real atrocity is medication for a lot of little kids.

Instead, The GOP is even intending a policy to get the U. S. Air Force to shoot at flies, in the market places, of Tripoli and other parts of the Mideast! These will be called, "No-Fly Zones(?)," and the GOP wants them federally funded!

It's just another part of their permanent record!

What They're Saying: While most Republicans remain noticeably silent on the ongoing crisis in Libya, a look at a few among the GOP who have spoken out in response - ConservativeHome's The Republican

The Obama Administration has not proposed this. The Obama Adminstration has in fact proposed getting out of both budgetary items, altogether. . .somehow.

"Crow, James Crow: Shaken, Not Stirred!"
(Great Half-Wit Father in Washington, now need new budgetary, fly-swatter line item, according to GOP! International Peace depends upon that, according to the old, fat, white people--cavorting about naked on other people's yachts--dumpting all kinds of substance into the ocean: Who are now alledged to run the place! Not big winners in Northern California parts, however, that anyone can think of! Lose many cajones, to hunting-Northern California style! Maybe even in Wisconsin this can happen! New source of scalps to hang on lodge walls(?). . .another NRA agenda(?)!)

 

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Yea, on his program this week, Dr. Jack van Impe says Obama gotta get all the lil' dictators outta the way so's he can be the big dictator of the New World Order...

'The Tyrannies Are Doomed'
APRIL 2, 2011 - The West's leading scholar of the Middle East, Bernard Lewis, sees cause for optimism in the limited-government traditions of Arab and Muslim culture. But he says the U.S. should not push for quick, Western-style elections.

What Went Wrong?" That was the explosive title of a December 2001 book by historian Bernard Lewis about the decline of the Muslim world. Already at the printer when 9/11 struck, the book rocketed the professor to widespread public attention, and its central question gripped Americans for a decade. Now, all of a sudden, there's a new question on American minds: What Might Go Right?

To find out, I made a pilgrimage to the professor's bungalow in Princeton, N.J., where he's lived since 1974 when he joined Princeton's faculty from London's School of Oriental and African Studies. Two months shy of his 95th birthday, Mr. Lewis has been writing history books since before World War II. By 1950, he was already a leading scholar of the Arab world, and after 9/11, the vice president and the Pentagon's top brass summoned him to Washington for his wisdom. "I think that the tyrannies are doomed," Mr. Lewis says as we sit by the windows in his library, teeming with thousands of books in the dozen or so languages he's mastered. "The real question is what will come instead."

For Americans who have watched protesters in Tunisia, Egypt, Iran, Libya, Bahrain and now Syria stand up against their regimes, it has been difficult not to be intoxicated by this revolutionary moment. Mr. Lewis is "delighted" by the popular movements and believes that the U.S. should do all it can to bolster them. But he cautions strongly against insisting on Western-style elections in Muslim lands. "We have a much better chance of establishing—I hesitate to use the word democracy—but some sort of open, tolerant society, if it's done within their systems, according to their traditions. Why should we expect them to adopt a Western system? And why should we expect it to work?" he asks.

Mr. Lewis brings up Germany circa 1918. "After World War I, the victorious Allies tried to impose the parliamentary system on Germany, where they had a rather different political tradition. And the result was that Hitler came to power. Hitler came to power by the manipulation of free and fair elections," recounts Mr. Lewis, who fought the Nazis in the British Army. For a more recent example, consider the 2006 electorial triumph of Hamas in Gaza. Elections, he argues, should be the culmination—not the beginning—of a gradual political process. Thus "to lay the stress all the time on elections, parliamentary Western-style elections, is a dangerous delusion."

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