en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/1343401 Comments by edwardallen54 http://non-intervention.com/862/libya-and-bahrain-neutering-the-constitution-heading-for-disaster/#IDComment136918485 Looks to me as if this military campaign is an immediate disaster. Gaddafi only has to cling onto his palace and watch as the alliance falls apart. Germany doesn't want it to become a NATO mission, and Italy suspects France is out for Libya's oil and is threatening to close NATO bases in Italy in response. What a mess. It is not achieving any goals, and I really don't know who we are supposed to be supporting in the fighting raging in Libya. Meantime, I read Syria is having protests and bloody crackdowns, with six dead today. So do we do Syria as well why we are in the area, and if the pressure to respond to a humanitarian disaster in Syria, what would be the consequences in Iraq, Lebanon and even Jordan? Wed, 23 Mar 2011 04:17:54 +0000 http://non-intervention.com/862/libya-and-bahrain-neutering-the-constitution-heading-for-disaster/#IDComment136918485 http://non-intervention.com/851/more-on-inevitable-democracy-in-the-arab-world/#IDComment133148820 It is sending shivers up my spine, but I am remembering the book "Anatomy of a Revolution" by Crane Brinton when I read these stories of what is going on in these Arab countries these days. I have no idea where it is going to end up, but I've read the stories in our press about what is happening in Egypt, and I see a lot of parallels with what Brinton found looking at the English, American, French, and Russian Revolutions. If Brinton's analysis holds up, we are in the pre-revolution honeymoon phase where discredited lawmakers form an interim government while the monarch is still alive and dispirited pro-monarch interest groups are left reeling. It will take a few more months to see if we have a Robespierre or a Lenin emerging and I must admit I don't know enough about Egyptian politics to pick him out now, except I suspect he will come from the Muslim Brotherhood social operations in the country. I talked to a Muslim Brotherhood representative when I was there a decade or so ago, but I do know enough about current Egyptian politics to be of any help. I do suspect it will get bloody in six months time. Mon, 7 Mar 2011 16:52:10 +0000 http://non-intervention.com/851/more-on-inevitable-democracy-in-the-arab-world/#IDComment133148820 http://biggovernment.com/dweigel/2010/06/28/hubris-and-humility-david-weigel-comes-clean-on-washington-post-the-d-c-bubble-the-journolist/#IDComment82783754 There's not an ounce of humility here, just defiance. The headline was misleading. If they didn't teach you in journalism school not to write anything that ridicules people, perhaps you have learned something. I wish you well looking for another job, but I think you are going to find a lot of doors shut in your face. You had a job as the king of the hill, and you ruined it. Maybe that experience will eventually give you humility, but you are really nothing special. I wish you good luck. Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:38:26 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/dweigel/2010/06/28/hubris-and-humility-david-weigel-comes-clean-on-washington-post-the-d-c-bubble-the-journolist/#IDComment82783754