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and so we go back around again.
one of the problems that's being revealed by this action in libya is the extent of the consequences of iraq and afghanistan.
this does not follow from some vaporous matter of "leadership" in the sense of getting on television and telling people without power what it is that they want to hear.
this problem is about the realities that operate amongst people who have political and military power internationally and who are in a position to recognize the damage that conservative incompetence has done to the american empire in particular and everyone who aligned with the lunatic campaigns of the bush period in general.
there's no amount of marketing of war to people with no power that's going to change that reality.
the central problem you really have, ace, and all your conservative avatars have it as well, is that you cannot face the magnitude of this. you'd like to pretend it's caused by other things. well......it isn't.
the problems of empire that are being played out in libya follow directly from afghanistan and iraq and the problems of the mortgage backed security crisis that undermined the position of the american financial oligarchy in an imperial context, something that **never** would have happened (in the sense of not that particular way, not never temporally) had the cluster fucks of afghanistan and iraq already been visited upon ALL OF US by people who think the way you do.
unless you think that the commands of all the militaries involved are joking when they talk about being dangerously stretched logistically.
because you'd know better than they. obviously.
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