As we watch the events un-fold
The very people who hated GWB with a passion never seen before worship Obama as never seen before
Missing the entire time these events
W Deficit = billions
BHO = Trillions
From Gitmo to tax policy
The Libyan adventure is awakening some eyes, slowly:
On The Latest From Libya - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
On The Latest From Libya
30 Mar 2011 08:40 pm
I'm still absorbing this news and don't want to vent immediately, because there is still part of me that simply cannot believe that president Obama has already ordered covert action in Libya on one side in a civil war, and is now actively discussing whether to arm that side in another chaotic Muslim country, committing the United States to yet another war against yet another tyranny simply because we can.
It's so surreal, so discordant with what the president has told the American people, so fantastically contrary to everything he campaigned on, that I will simply wait for more confirmation than this before commenting further. I simply cannot believe it. I know the president is not against all wars - just dumb ones. But could any war be dumber than this - in a place with no potential for civil society, wrecked by totalitarianism, riven by tribalism, in defense of rebels we do not know and who are clearly insufficient to the task?
By all means keep the no-fly zone to protect unarmed civilians from brute military force. But that must be the total sum of the commitment.
Poor, poor Andrew! The scales are falling!
Obama has been killing civilians in Pakistan for 2 years and not one word from the press
you think this has just started?
W did not hold a light to this man on killing innocent people, directly killing innocent people
So far Barack Obama has signed off on over 125 strikes – twice the number authorised by George Bush during the last five years of his presidency. Manufacturers are scrambling to keep up with demand from the CIA.
In the latest attack yesterday, a missile hit a vehicle near Mir Ali, a notorious militant hub in North Waziristan. The identity of those killed was not known.
Pakistanis are distinctly less enthusiastic about the strikes. One US-funded survey of 1,000 tribal residents last summer found that more than three-quarters of people oppose the drone strikes. Only 16% think the strikes accurately target militants while 48% think they mostly kill civilians
Obama's enthusiasm for drone strikes takes heavy toll on Pakistan's tribesmen | World news | guardian.co.uk