It takes a president to order a military assault (The Congress just doesn't do this Constitutional duty at all). This was Obama's war of aggression against Libya. As much as the U.S. destruction of rural Cambodia circa 1969-73 was Nixon's war of aggression, not Kissinger's. It was simply a war to destroy a state Hillary and many in the political class in Washington had detested for many a year before 2011. I really think the reason for Obama not dropping the anvil on Syria like he did in Libya has been the disaster that has followed after the fall of Qaddafi.

No mention here of the leading "leftist" apologist for Obama's aggression, the completely unrepentant Juan Cole. I really mean it when I say that Cole should have been in Ambassador Steven's place when the **** hit the fan in Benghazi circa September 11/12, 2012. There is nothing I can't stand more than intellectuals living comfortably in the U.S., while using their academic credentials to help sell a war abroad. Meanwhile, the nation destroyed suffers in so many ways for many years after the bombs have stopped falling.

I said it four years ago, and I won't stop as long as he continues his pathetic apologetics for the misery Obama has heaped onto the people of LIbya, Juan Cole for U.S. Ambassador to Libya. Put him in the middle of Tripoli where he belongs, and can take in first hand the unstable anarchy he advocated for Libya. Like with Iraq, no honest person can say he/she didn't see this coming.

Here I am reminded of what Vijay Prashad had to say in an interview on the Counterspin radio program in the aftermath of the Behghazi consulate attacks a couple of years ago. A crude low budget "film" about Muhammad was being given a lot more attention than it deserved at the time. The gist of Prashad's argument went that the West has come to dominate the globe in so many ways, both militarily and economically. But the West Uber Alles partisans don't stop there, and make it a point to rub it in the faces of non-Western peoples, by insulting the cultures that give them a sense of pride and purpose in life.

This doesn't just include the sphere of religion, but language as well. The best example I can think of from my knowledge of France in Indochina is when the French attempted to introduce a transliterated Latin version of the Cambodian language back during the 1940's. The top administrator of the Cambodian department of French Indochina compared the Cambodian language to a "badly tailored suit". And these people wonder why the people they colonize come to resent them and act out violently against them.

The one French official assassinated in Cambodia during the colonial period was a tax collector. This was in a province west of Phnom Penh in 1925, I believe. Cambodia was the most regressively taxed of the five departments of French Indochina. Not difficult to understand why when it came time for the Cambodian people to vent their frustration with the Great Civilizing Mission that the target was a tax collector. They weren't motivated by hatred of French civilization and the French people, but by the desire to resist the firm force of the jackboot of the Great Civilizing Mission that had been forced upon them.

"It Was Time to Do More Than Protest": Activists Admit to 1971 FBI Burglary That Exposed COINTELPRO:
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/1/8/it_was_time_...

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In 2013, Snowden joined Wikileaks in becoming one of the great sources of journalism in the dawn of the new age of the Internet. Like with Wikileaks, we see in the journalism of Greenwald and others on Snowden the potential for the Internet to become an "Information Superhighway". Once again we see the complete contempt power and privilege has for free and open access to information on the Internet. Fortunately, for Snowden and Greenwald, most of the general population have civilized views about how they think the world should actually work and regard them as heroes. This is in stark contrast to the vulgarity of the savage defenders of state power, many of them "journalists", calling for their prosecutions and possible executions. It will be interesting to see how far Washington is willing to go to persecute Snowden and Greenwald in the face of so much public support for them.

Yeah, those awful Chinese, who once invaded and occupied Britain, France, Japan and the U.S....

...no wait a minute, it was the other way around:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_of_humiliati...

Obviously, any historical analysis arguing that Washington couldn't have seen a military attack from Japan coming by the early '40's is simply not credible anymore. Whether or not they knew exactly where it would happen is another matter. What I think is more important is the myth that it was an "unprovoked" attack, when Washington had already declared war on Japan with economic sanctions. The idea that Washington is just innocently going about its affairs in the world peacefully and doing nothing to provoke violence, much less instigate its own violence, is one that we need to challenge.

I believe that is in this essay where Chomsky reviews Japan's position on the Pacific War, and he also compares Japan's counterinsurgency campaigns in Manchria to the ones happening at the time in Vietnam:
http://chomsky.info/articles/196709--.htm

Yes, let's riot in the streets to get rid of your national currency in favor of the Euro. You have to be kidding me. They must be getting paid to do it.

The EU has nothing to do with socialism, and is in fact using the Euro to destroy social democracy throughout Europe. Loading down nations with unpayable sovereign debts and then using austerity for the masses to pay off bankers is not socialism. It's a form of state capitalism.

It is true that the EU bankers uber alles, screw the people policies are being helped along by the parties of the left:
http://www.gregpalast.com/my-big-fat-greek-minist...

"...the problem with militarism is the same as the problem with socialism: central planners are clueless because they are blind to price signals...."

Yeah, like when Dick Cheney was Secretary of Defense. Was just blind to how the world works as a bureaucrat. Then he became CEO of Halliburton in 1995 and saw the light, and significantly increased the bacon the company brought in from government contracts. Everybody in the Pentagon knows their top job domestically is to bring home the bacon to the private sector contractors. This is the reason why it is so hard to figure out what is going on with Pentagon money. It's bad enough how the budget is spent is not subject to open public review. Then it gets doled out to private corporations, who place contracts behind the corporate barbed wire known as "trade secrets".

Yeah, you're blind to "price signals" up in Canada:
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=129359

Price controls "don't work"....at maximizing corporate profits.