Fafblog on Libya (Joe)

In case you were wondering how our increasingly silent blog friend feels, here's The Medium Lobster:

But if there are several dozen things America loves, they are war, torture, genocide, chattel slavery, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, assassination, poverty, institutionalized bribery, remote-controlled flying death robots and somewhere down the list, between prison labor and lagoons of toxic pig shit, there is almost certainly a special place in our national heart for freedom.

And so it is that the United States is fighting to free the Libyan people from the Libyan people by killing the Libyan people. The situation is fairly straightforward, after all - Libya faces a humanitarian crisis, and the only way to address a humanitarian crisis is to bomb it with hundreds of cruise missiles. I'm told that the Red Cross still delivers bottled water and medical supplies by duct-taping them to the nose cone of an outgoing Tomahawk.

That's just an excerpt; click over to read the whole thing.

Comments

[Ruchira]

Welcome back, Joe! Nice to meet you here again even if you are just channeling Medium Lobster.

Now there is this.

[Norman Costa]

"You may ask, what makes getting killed by the United States any better than getting killed by Qaddafi?"

Joe, it is a good question. Some of Medium Lobster is worth considering, but what about our national interests, the politique realite? What does it mean that NATO did not need any convincing or arm twisting from the U.S.?