John of Arabia
2011-05-05 - by
First we got into another ‘short war’ (over in Libya) then the war turned into a logjam then one morning I opened the newspaper and there was John McCain traipsing around Benghazi saying we ought to dive in deeper to break the logjam and next the Obama administration was sending the ‘rebels’ $25 million.
Senator McCain got so pumped up during his trip to the Kasbah he told the press it was “one of the most exciting and inspiring days of my life” then gushed to the Lybian revolutionaries, You’re my heroes.
Then a reporter poured cold water all over McCain’s fine day by harpooning his call for the United States to officially recognize the ‘rebels’ by asking, Are you sure about that? We don’t know too much about these folks – or who’ll end up replacing Qaddafi if they win?
McCain shot back, “We didn’t know who would come after Hitler either” – but that’s not exactly so. We did: General Eisenhower.
Everybody’s focused on Osama bin Laden right now but over on the shores of the Mediterranean Lybia’s looking more and more like history repeating itself. We dive in, bog-down, then someone like John McCain shows up saying the solution is simple: Hit the tar baby one more time.
John of Arabia
2011-05-05/
First we got into another ‘short war’ (over in Libya) then the war turned into a logjam then one morning I opened the newspaper and there was John McCain traipsing around Benghazi saying we ought to dive in deeper to break the logjam and next the Obama administration was sending the ‘rebels’ $25 million.
Senator McCain got so pumped up during his trip to the Kasbah he told the press it was “one of the most exciting and inspiring days of my life” then gushed to the Lybian revolutionaries, You’re my heroes.
Then a reporter poured cold water all over McCain’s fine day by harpooning his call for the United States to officially recognize the ‘rebels’ by asking, Are you sure about that? We don’t know too much about these folks – or who’ll end up replacing Qaddafi if they win?
McCain shot back, “We didn’t know who would come after Hitler either” – but that’s not exactly so. We did: General Eisenhower.
Everybody’s focused on Osama bin Laden right now but over on the shores of the Mediterranean Lybia’s looking more and more like history repeating itself. We dive in, bog-down, then someone like John McCain shows up saying the solution is simple: Hit the tar baby one more time.