In the words of that timeless philosopher Axl Rose. "What's so civil about war anyway?" "My hands are tied For all I've seen has changed my mind But still the wars go on as the years go by With no love of God or human rights 'Cause all these dreams are swept aside By bloody hands of the hypnotized Who carry the cross of homicide And history bears the scars of our civil wars" (full lyrics below the fold). So I was walking to get my coffee and the first song Pandora thought I should hear was Civil War. This was one of the howl at the moon songs we used to serenade the entire barracks with when we were lit up. I have said before I think it is a great song and a brilliant anti-war anthem. If it doesn't make you thinnk about the true cost of war and the failure of humans to live peacefully, then you are not paying attention We are again looking at a foreign war and I have been trying to square in my own mind how we can justify it. I want to throw up when I hear newscasters toss around phrases like spending our blood and treasure. STFU! we are sending men and women to fight and die, have the stones to speak straight about that. It is the most consequential decision we can make and should always be a last resort. Now that the UN has blessed a no fly zone, we will see what happens next. This action is obviously much later than it should have been and many Libyans have been slaughtered because of that failure. Once it was obvious that there was a serious resistance in Libya, we should have made some overt gesture of support. Gaddafi is a pathetic facade of a true tyrant, and he has never been particularly brave. He wet himself when Reagan launched some buzzbombs at him. He caved on his WMD programs when W deposed Saddam. Doesn't it seem likely that if a bunch of his fighter jets blew up and holes appeared in all his runways that he might have chilled out and decided rich in exile beats being returned to your component molecules? So what now? The Libyans are starting to talk like a good chickening out wouldn't be the worst thing, but Madame Hillary wants to see the actions meet the words. I can't see any scenario where US troops on the ground is a good thing, besides some Special Forces helping the rebels learn to play Army. But maybe some Egyptian tanks flying UN and Arab League colors parked near Benghazi might sharpen up the decision-making process for Gaddafi and his spawn. If he keeps hitting the rebels we can obviously give him a good taste of precision-guided weaponry and he really doesn't have any way to oppose us. If there was ever a time for that vaunted international community to step up and act this seems like an easy one. Strangle him economically, diplomatically and if need be literally. Personally I think he will cave shortly and go pitch his tents in somebody else's desert oasis. If he doesn't then it gets sticky, and all options for escalation seem to require some direct intervention. There is not much sentiment in favor of that and our own Sec Def said land war in the Middle East would be insane so this is not time for a reprise of the shores of Tripoli. In the end I think we will try to pressure him out and if that fails, we will destroy as much of his weaponry, infrastructure and personal property as possible. Insha Allah that will do the trick. "What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach... So, you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it! Well, he gets it! N' I don't like it any more than you men." * Look at your young men fighting Look at your women crying Look at your young men dying The way they've always done before Look at the hate we're breeding Look at the fear we're feeding Look at the lives we're leading The way we've always done before My hands are tied The billions shift from side to side And the wars go on with brainwashed pride For the love of God and our human rights And all these things are swept aside By bloody hands time can't deny And are washed away by your genocide And history hides the lies of our civil wars D'you wear a black armband When they shot the man Who said "Peace could last forever" And in my first memories They shot Kennedy I went numb when I learned to see So I never fell for Vietnam We got the wall of D.C. to remind us all That you can't trust freedom When it's not in your hands When everybody's fightin' For their promised land And I don't need your civil war It feeds the rich while it buries the poor Your power hungry sellin' soldiers In a human grocery store Ain't that fresh I don't need your civil war Look at the shoes your filling Look at the blood we're spilling Look at the world we're killing The way we've always done before Look in the doubt we've wallowed Look at the leaders we've followed Look at the lies we've swallowed And I don't want to hear no more My hands are tied For all I've seen has changed my mind But still the wars go on as the years go by With no love of God or human rights 'Cause all these dreams are swept aside By bloody hands of the hypnotized Who carry the cross of homicide And history bears the scars of our civil wars "We practice selective annihilation of mayors And government officials For example to create a vacuum Then we fill that...
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