Daily Agitator

I was not going to comment on Obama’s long anticipated speech on Libya……but all that changed after reading and commenting on a few blogs (most notably Spinny Liberal…go to blogroll and visit….SOON!) and decided that maybe I should have my opinion known to my readers….

Personally, the speech was a waste of time!  I did NOT learn anything new…nothing that has not been picked apart endlessly for a week or more….I found it to be a typical political tap dance….he (Obama) reiterated that the US entered into this to stop a massacre in the making…..and to stop an illegitimate regime….huh?

As with any presidential speech I look for something that makes no sense and is a spin by the admin and I found it….an illegitimate regime!

First of all, this potted history fails to explain why it is that over the past decade successive US administrations established ever closer—and more lucrative—relations with the Libyan “tyrant.” In the wake of September 11, 2001, his secret service became one of the most important regional allies of the CIA in the so-called “global war on terrorism.” Bush’s national security advisor, Condoleezza Rice, flew to Tripoli to cement the US-Libyan alliance.  (thanx to Bill Van Auken for the quote)

Does not appear that we are treating the regime as an illegitimate one to me….how about you?

And then there was his point about the emerging democratic feelings across the Middle East…

“The democratic impulses that are dawning across the region would be eclipsed by the darkest form of dictatorship, as repressive leaders concluded that violence is the best strategy to cling to power,”

That is true, to a certain point……but Libya is not one of those….the call is for Qadafi’s head….the democracy thing is not as loud as it was in Egypt……so when Obama said “Qadafi Must Go!” he was echoing the people and it does NOT necessarily mean that democracy will break out the moment he is gone…whether figuratively or physically…….

My views are well known to my readers and I need not go on and on….I stop here before I bore the pants off my readers……like I said….Nothing New!  A Waste Of Time!  If you watched looking for something to explain things….you already had your answers….the political spin has told you all you need to know…..