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true. but the infotainment system was far more---um---neo-fascist in orientation at the time. that is, co-ordinated centrally around a primitive us/them game. and cowboy george operated from a state of emergency. and congress just fucking rolled over, particularly given the shabby presentations of infotainment they got on iraq. so they failed in their oversight functions twice and now there's complaining that they've not been consulted.
at the same time, the need for consultation grew out of the vietnam debacle and the church act. so it was to prevent another debacle....but you're right: congress did approve afghanistan (debacle) and iraq (debacle). sorry. couldn't resist.
at the same time, it's obviously a problem formally speaking. what i really dislike about the obama administration---well, one of the things---is that they inhabit the imperial presidency taken/staked out by the bush people (on dubious legal and historical grounds) quite contentedly. this bugs me.
in terms of the situation in libya, however, things are simpler: the situation required action and as it is that action came about as close to too late as is possible to be without exactly being too late.
like i said, there's ambivalence aplenty here, something for everyone to not quite feel great about.
but a massacre did get at least slowed way down.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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