Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq - Oh My

It just keeps getting better -

"I don't oppose all wars. ... What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz and other armchair, weekend warriors in this administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne."

“But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors, that the Iraqi economy is in shambles, that the Iraqi military is a fraction of its former strength, and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history,” said Sen. Obama.

At least Obama is consistent. But before we delve too far into ideological reasons, let's examine the so-called "rebels" starting with their leader -

The commander of anti Gaddafi rebels forces in Libya has admitted that among the ranks of those fighting against the government are islamic militants who have fought and killed US troops in Iraq, otherwise known as “al qaeda” fighters.

Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi, who made the remarks in an interview with Il Sole 24 Ore, an Italian newspaper, admitted that he had previously recruited fundamentalists to fight in Iraq, and said that the fighters are “today are on the front lines in Adjabiya”. 

al-Hasidi himself was captured in Pakistan in 2002 and handed over to US forces after fighting against US troops in Afghanistan. He was held in Libya and eventually released in 2008.

 Have you ever wondered why these little wars keep happening? Just why there's so much oppression in foreign lands? Well, this is nothing new in the world and it is routinely designed to operate this way courtesy of our own Central Intelligence Agency -

In his memoir, current Defense Secretary Robert Gates admits that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter’s national security advisor at the time, told the French newspaper Le Nouvel Observateur in 1998 that it was all true – that creating the Mujahadeen that would later morph into al-Qaeda and the Taliban was an “excellent idea” and he had no regrets, never mind the 400,000 who died as a result.

In addition to attacking Russia in Afghanistan – an effort that would ultimately result in the downfall of the Soviet empire – and plunging that nation into a horrific civil war, the intelligence effort established al-Qaeda as a foreign policy instrument used by the globalists to take down nations and regimes (specifically in Bosnia and Kosovo) and also was used to demonize resistance to forays by the globalists.

and more recently -

Mr. al-Hasidi is reportedly a member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), also known as Al-Jama’a al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi-Libya. It is the most powerful radical faction waging Jihad in Libya and was officially designated as an affiliate of al-Qaeda and the Taliban – both CIA creations – by the UN 1267 Committee. LIFG was founded in the fall of 1995 by Libyans who had fought against Soviet forces in Afghanistan, in short for the CIA and the ISI.

In 2007, documents captured by allied forces from the town of Sinjar, showed LIFG members made up the second-largest cohort of foreign fighters in Iraq, after Saudi Arabia.

Not surprisingly, another intelligence asset, al-Muhajiroun, is active in Libya. Al-Muhajiroun was involved in recruiting British Muslims to fight in Kosovo. The now banned organization, based out of a London mosque, is known to have harbored a number of British intelligence plants, including Haroon Rashid Aswat, supposedly the mastermind of the London 7/7 bombings. In 1997, the group’s leader, Abu Hamza al-Masri, started working with two branches of the British security services, the police’s Special Branch and MI5, the domestic counterintelligence service.

This same Zbigniew Brzezinski would go on to write the tell-tale look into Ordo ab Chao geo-strategic warfare in, The Grand Chessboard. Explained briefly, this doctrine of warfare seeks to create the chaos necessary to destabilize the world so that it can be controlled directly. This is exactly why we continue to see this revolving door of intervention, wars and subsequent bankruptcy that robs the populace of their capital.

Let's get back to ideology for a moment. This is an illegal war. There has been no declaration of war by the Congress, not even a censorship resolution on Qaddafi. To quote Congressman Ron Paul -

Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution could not be clearer: the power and obligation to declare war resides solely in the US Congress.

Do you really support an action by any elected individual that flies in the face of his sworn oath? How can any individual that holds an elected office attempt to exercise his office when he flagrantly violates his constraints and most shockingly, arms those who reportedly carried out 9/11?

But let's stick our head in the sand further and ignore the illegality of it for a moment. Behind Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan this is the fourth country that the United States is currently committed to military operations in. This says nothing of our troop commitments to countries such as Georgia (9,000), South Korea (30,000), or Japan (50,000) Or heaven forbid we look into Romania, Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, Germany, Kosovo, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Somalia, Djibouti, Aruba, Egypt, Oman, Diego Garcia, Australia, or Singapore. Indeed, is there a country where we don't like to play soldier?

So just how much does this global action cost? As much as all of the world's military budgets combined. (Of course, you can add on Libya now too.) Where does that leave the United States fiscally? Technically, we're bust. Zip. Out of $ -

“If the United States actually defaults on our debt it would be catastrophic,” Dimon, 55, said at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event in Washington today, when asked what may happen if the U.S. fails to increase its $14.29 trillion debt limit.

The government will reach its legal debt limit between April 15 and May 31 if Congress doesn’t act, the U.S. Treasury Department said March 1. The department, which may provide an updated timeline in early April, has said it could get an extra eight weeks before it exhausts emergency steps to avoid breaching the limit.(Uh, no. We hit it already.)

Of course, when confronted with such a thing, the Republicans will fold and the spending will continue. But with quantitative easing absolutely destroying purchasing power here and abroad, the Fed is confronted with a snafu. Either default and lock itself out of foreign markets or continue inflating and stoke the fires of rebellion abroad. (Take a guess at what they have chosen so far.)

Not surprisingly, local governments are just as bad -

In a speech before the United States Chamber of Commerce, JPMorgan Chase Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon told the audience:

I wouldn’t panic about what I’m about to say. You’re going to see some municipalities not make it. I don’t think it’s going to shatter America, I just think it’s a part of the credit cycle.

He went on to say that some municipalities will need to renegotiate their debt and it will be hundreds of them that may “not make it.”

More immediately, foreclosures are leaving housing empty, food stamp usage is abysmally high, and unemployment stands at 15.9% (U6. It is over 22% if you take out all the shenanigans).

Let's look at just what we're bringing the good people of Libya. All this so-called freedom and stuff. Of course, this is from the same group that gave you depleted uranium in Iraq, look at the pictures (Warning: Graphic) if you have the balls to stomach what your tax dollars are really doing to the world.


And in what is the final oppinion on all of this, the NATO commander gives his take on the likely outcome  -

Speaking some 10 days in to the war on Libya, NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen today said “clearly there’s no military solution” to the conflict, echoing the slogan NATO officials have constantly trotted out to explain the continuation of the Afghan War.

There you have it, billions spent. Thousands dead. And NO solution. This has nothing at all to do with "humanitarianism" or "justice". This has everything to do with removing an individual in a sovereign nation that isn't towing the globalist line and out of the ashes creating a new ethnic war. Of course, astute readers of mine knew that back on March 1st.