There's some graphic footage going around the web showing our freedom fighters sodomizing the gravely wounded King of Africa with what is either a knife or a stick. An apt metaphor for what we just did to Libya, in my estimation.
Not that this will curb the gloating in the NATO capitals. Britain's Defence Secretary Phillip Hammond has advised British businessmen to pack their bags and head for Tripoli. It's a veritable gold rush apparently. All that black gold in the ground. All that rebuilding to be done. This will be one of the most profitable wars in recent memory.
Across the pond Obama showed up on the Jay Leno show to gloat about what a brilliant success the Libya mission has been. How does Obama measure success? No American lives were lost. The world's only super-power and its NATO gang of wannabees were able to turn back the clock on the country with the highest standard of living in Africa by about two hundred years. It only took eight months for the most powerful military alliance in history to utterly destroy a country that has half the population of greater Los Angeles. But at least no American lives were lost.
Meanwhile here in the True North, Minister of National Defence Peter "Pinocchio" MacKay declared that the Libya mission was a "success by any standard". As long as your standards don't involve a shred of concern for fundamental concepts of justice and humanity he may be right. MacKay also declared himself pleased and surprised that glory in Libya came in well under budget at a mere 50 million dollars.
Funny, back in May the papers were full of stories about how we had to replenish our smart-bomb inventory to the tune of 130 million due to the unexpected reluctance of the Libyans to embrace our message of freedom and democracy. How 130 million plus thousands of sorties over eight months adds up to 50 million I'm not sure.
But then, I'm not a politician.
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