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AP, LA Times And USA Today All Avoid Naming Obama In Stories On Libya

September 5, 2014 by PA Pundits - International

By Tom Blumer ~ The establishment press is working mightily to shield President Barack Obama from blame for, or even association with, decisions he has made and actions he has taken — unilaterally and with dubious constitutional authority in many instances. One particularly egregious example is Libya. When Obama decided on his own to engage in […]

A U.S. Show Of Force

May 30, 2014 by PA Pundits - International

A Dry Bones Cartoon ~ The latest as I write this: The United States is deploying an amphibious assault ship with about 1000 marines off the coast of Libya in case the US embassy has to be evacuated, a US defence official says.The USS Bataan was to be in the area “in a matter of […]

The Middle East Minefield

November 29, 2012 by PA Pundits - International

By Alan Caruba ~ I often wonder whether Americans really care about the outcome of events as regards Israel. I know that a segment of American Jews are concerned and that evangelical Christians may care even more. I can’t escape the feeling, though, that other than the horror of an Iranian nuclear missile blowing up […]

U.S. Diplomats in Libya Begged for More Security to No Avail

October 9, 2012 by PA Pundits - International

By Jim Kouri, CPP. ~ Prior to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, Ambassador Chris Stevens’ request for additional security officials was turned down by the Obama administration in order to project a friendly atmosphere to the distrusting Islamic population, an anonymous security official in Washington, D.C., informed the […]

U.S. Compound in Libya Was ‘Too Far Outside the Wire’

September 17, 2012 by PA Pundits - International

By Colonel Kenneth Allard (U.S. Army, Ret) ~ It’s time to drop the rhetoric, defend our interests. Who is to blame when embassies are overrun and a U.S. ambassador is killed? Most of all, what do we do about it? When I was dean of the National War College, my students included future generals and […]

Oh, And Libya Didn’t Work Out That Great, By The Way

February 18, 2012 by PA Pundits - International

By Andrew Bolt ~ So, how goes liberated Libya, freed from the tyrant’s yoke? Armed militias in Libya are committing human rights abuses with impunity, threatening to destabilize the country and hindering its efforts to rebuild, Amnesty International said Thursday. Militias have tortured detainees, targeted migrants and displaced entire communities in revenge attacks, according to […]

The Truth about Libyan “Rebels”

August 29, 2011 by PA Pundits - International

By Diana West Here are three things Americans need to know about the Libyan “rebels” the U.S. government isn’t telling us. One: The inspiration of the Libyan war is as much anti-Western as it is anti-Gadhafi. The “Day of Rage” that kick-started the Libyan war on Feb. 17 marked the fifth anniversary of violent protests […]

No Fly Zone

June 21, 2011 by PA Pundits - International

A Dry Bones Cartoon Mr. Shuldig is my cartoon alter ego, and he (like me) is watching the news and trying to figure out how American and NATO Mid East policy could be going so horrifyingly wrong. Read More by Yaakov Kirschen at Dry Bones . http://drybonesblog.blogspot.com/

Evening Howler: In Libya Coverage, AP Invents a Bizarre Synonym for ‘Fails to Comply With’

May 21, 2011 by PA Pundits - International

By Tom Blumer It’s been 60 days since America’s “kinetic military action” in Libya commenced. The War Powers Act is relevant in certain circumstances, including (Section 1543) “in any case in which United States Armed Forces are introduced … into the territory, airspace or waters of a foreign nation, while equipped for combat.” This would […]

Libya – Moral To The West’s Emboldened Rivals: Just Carry A Big Gun

May 13, 2011 by PA Pundits - International

By Andrew Bolt NATO’s ineffectual war in inconsequential Libya drags on into stalemate Libya’s rebel forces need their international allies to supply them with more weapons if they are to make a breakthrough in their fight against Muammar Gaddafi, rebel leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil said on Thursday… The fighting has reached a stalemate, with the […]

Welcome to the Middle East. We’re All Crazy Here.

April 7, 2011 by PA Pundits - International

By Alan Caruba A recent Fox News channel report concerned a student from Vermont’s Middlebury College who was studying international relations overseas in Cairo when that city came unglued. He was given the opportunity to go to Damascus, Syria to continue his studies and he jumped at it. Bad move. While there some kind of […]

War for No Particular Reason

April 4, 2011 by PA Pundits - International

By Alan Caruba Thanks to the Obama administration, we have now entered upon a new phase of foreign policy. It is war for no particular reason. Why are we doing anything in Libya? We’re not messing around in any of those other places that involve governments shooting at their own people. Obama famously did not […]

Obama’s Libyan War

March 30, 2011 by PA Pundits - International

By Brent Bozell Think of all the militant anti-war types who were thrilled at the removal of the Bush “war machine” in 2008, only to see President Obama’s strained endorsement of military action in Libya. Oh, how the political wave of the hard left has crashed ashore. It seems like only yesterday when they were […]

No Clear Leaders, No Clear Aims – And Obama’s War Will Achieve What?

March 30, 2011 by PA Pundits - International

By Andrew Bolt Daniel Pipes: With most Americans not quite realising it, their government haphazardly went to war on March 19 against Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya. Hostilities were barely acknowledged, covered with euphemism (“kinetic military action, particularly on the front-end”) and without a clear goal. Two Obama administration principals were out of the country: the President […]

The Education of Barack Obama

March 29, 2011 by PA Pundits - International

By Alan Caruba Just over two years ago when Barack Obama was sworn into office, he might have needed help to find Libya on the map and Muammar Gadhafi was just another Middle Eastern despot. Despite a whirlwind tour of the Middle East, I doubt he had any idea that the Maghreb of north African […]

A World in Disarray

March 24, 2011 by PA Pundits - International

By Alan Caruba It almost makes one wistful for the Cold War when the world was neatly divided between the United States and its allies against what Ronald Reagan called “the evil empire”, the Soviet Union and its satellite nations. Trying to bring about a League of Nations after World War One virtually killed President […]

Scary Movie

March 24, 2011 by PA Pundits - International

A Dry Bones Cartoon You almost always know something about a movie before you see it. Is it a comedy, an adventure, a psychological thriller, science fiction, etc. Many years ago I was in Tel Aviv for the day (I was living in Jerusalem at the time). I had been under a lot of pressure […]

On Defense and Disasters

March 22, 2011 by PA Pundits - International

By James Carafano, Ph.D. Foreign policy news last week flipped back and forth between Japan and Libya. The week started with attention riveted on the threat of nuclear contamination spreading to Tokyo and ended with a UN resolution and military intervention in Libya. None of the news from Japan was good last week. The White […]