Reply #26: As happens with me and many of your articles, I started to

[truedelphi]

Snatch up certain paragraphs that seemed especially enlightening, only to find the succeeding paragraphs equally compelling.

Yes, sadly, every word of what you say is true. Our nation, and its righteous President, now allows an entire town, Sirte, to be bombed - because the town's people didn't offer Khaddafi up to the NATO forces.

And it was bombed even though the reason for their "disobedience" to NATO's demands was that they didn't know where Khaddafi was.

Ah well, like Kissinger intoned on that sad day in December - what opportunities there are for Mr Obama to get the entire world behind "The New WOrld Order." (Mods: the expression New World Order was used by Kissinger - I cannot quote him without using the expression.) It was a sad day, as it indicated to everyone who it really was that we had elected with such jubilation only five weeks earlier!

I wish this post was required reading for everyone on DU.

Oh, and the spouse informed me through his research about two days ago - Khaddafi had provided every family with housing while he reigned over Libya. So what will we offer the citizens? Will they get the largesse that we have showered on the people of Iraq? <sarcasm meant>