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[so on any news channel you turn to today, it's all about how the powers-that-be are circling the wagons and trying to contain the damage before the delusional megalomaniac takes everybody and everything down with him.and then once the subject of charlie sheen is exhausted, the talk generally turns to qaddafi.]
today the posturing of the western powers vis a vis libya got particularly idiotic--for instance, the british prime minister saying shit like
We must not tolerate this regime using military force against its own people.
and then our own [liberal] secretary of state chiming in with
Nothing is off the table so long as the Libyan government continues to threaten and kill Libyans.
ah yes, the same rationale our previous [conservative] administration trumped up to justify our last great military misadventure (but only as a last resort after the "weapons of mass destruction" and "threat to the region" arguments fell apart, of course).
and as i listen to this latest self-serving bullshit, i wonder if anybody else besides me remembers that these are the self-same western powers that couldn't be bothered to lift a finger when the rwandans and the sudanese and the somalians were all slaughtering each other.
and then i wonder, for maybe the thousandth time, if in my lifetime one of the powers-that-be will ever just finally come out and and say
we're doing it for the goddam oil.
because i, for one, would find the truth a much more compelling argument--hell, i like driving my car.
