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The Arab Spring isn't a replay of the American Revolution. It's a replay of the French Revolution.
By Ann Coulter
When President Obama intervened in Libya last year, he claimed that its in our national interest to act to remove a tyrant who in response to Bushs invasion of Iraq had just given up his weapons of mass destruction and pledged to be Americas BFF.
Apparently Gadhafi neglected to also tell Obama, Ive got your back.
Obama said: We must stand alongside those who believe in the same core principles that have guided us through many storms our support for a set of universal rights, including the freedom for people to express themselves and choose their leaders; our support for the governments that are ultimately responsive to the aspirations of the people.
The Libyan mob was the equivalent of our founding fathers! (If you overlook the part about it being a murderous Islamic mob.)
Meanwhile, Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIAs Bin Laden unit, said: The people we are fighting for in Libya, the backbone of that movement, are former mujahedeen from around the world. We are enabling people who may not be formally aligned with al-Qaida but who want the same things to grasp ever closer to power.
Scheuer said the media had taken a few English-speaking Arabs who are pro-democracy and a few Facebook pages out of the Middle East and extrapolated that to a region-wide love of secular democracy, adding, It is as insane a situation as Ive ever encountered in my life.
No wonder Obamas running for re-election on his foreign policy expertise!
Among Republicans, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum all called for aggressive action against Gadhafi, including enforcement of a no-fly zone.
Santorum cited Reagans 1986 bombing of Libya (after Gadhafi had killed American servicemen in Berlin), saying, If you want to be Reaganesque, it seems the path is pretty clear.
Gingrich took all sides, first demanding: Exercise a no-fly zone this evening. We dont need to have the United Nations. All we have to say is that we think that slaughtering your own citizens is unacceptable and that were intervening. This is a moment to get rid of him. Do it. Get it over with.
Then, two weeks later, he said: I would not have intervened.
Only Mitt Romney and Haley Barbour resisted calling for aggressive action against Gadhafi, with Romney merely criticizing Obamas deer-in-the-headlights response, and Barbour stating more directly, I dont think its our mission to make Libya look like Luxembourg. No offense, he said, but it is not ever going to look like what wed like....
Read more: Libyans commemorate 9/11 | The Daily Caller
By Ann Coulter
When President Obama intervened in Libya last year, he claimed that its in our national interest to act to remove a tyrant who in response to Bushs invasion of Iraq had just given up his weapons of mass destruction and pledged to be Americas BFF.
Apparently Gadhafi neglected to also tell Obama, Ive got your back.
Obama said: We must stand alongside those who believe in the same core principles that have guided us through many storms our support for a set of universal rights, including the freedom for people to express themselves and choose their leaders; our support for the governments that are ultimately responsive to the aspirations of the people.
The Libyan mob was the equivalent of our founding fathers! (If you overlook the part about it being a murderous Islamic mob.)
Meanwhile, Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIAs Bin Laden unit, said: The people we are fighting for in Libya, the backbone of that movement, are former mujahedeen from around the world. We are enabling people who may not be formally aligned with al-Qaida but who want the same things to grasp ever closer to power.
Scheuer said the media had taken a few English-speaking Arabs who are pro-democracy and a few Facebook pages out of the Middle East and extrapolated that to a region-wide love of secular democracy, adding, It is as insane a situation as Ive ever encountered in my life.
No wonder Obamas running for re-election on his foreign policy expertise!
Among Republicans, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum all called for aggressive action against Gadhafi, including enforcement of a no-fly zone.
Santorum cited Reagans 1986 bombing of Libya (after Gadhafi had killed American servicemen in Berlin), saying, If you want to be Reaganesque, it seems the path is pretty clear.
Gingrich took all sides, first demanding: Exercise a no-fly zone this evening. We dont need to have the United Nations. All we have to say is that we think that slaughtering your own citizens is unacceptable and that were intervening. This is a moment to get rid of him. Do it. Get it over with.
Then, two weeks later, he said: I would not have intervened.
Only Mitt Romney and Haley Barbour resisted calling for aggressive action against Gadhafi, with Romney merely criticizing Obamas deer-in-the-headlights response, and Barbour stating more directly, I dont think its our mission to make Libya look like Luxembourg. No offense, he said, but it is not ever going to look like what wed like....
Read more: Libyans commemorate 9/11 | The Daily Caller
