Libertarians, My Libertarians!
Cruel to be kind means that I love you . Because, while I think you are mistaken, your hearts are in the right place -- yes, even you, Silas -- unlike some people . This Breitbart fellow (discussed in the link above), by all appearances, deliberately doctored a video of Shirley Sherrod to make her remarks appear virulently racist, when they had, in fact, the opposite import. I heard that at a recent Austrian conference, some folks were talking about "Callahan's conservative turn." While that description is not entirely inaccurate, I must say that a lot of these people who today call themselves conservative give me the heebie-jeebies.
I agree that it was a blunder, but unfortunately it was not a political one.
ReplyDeleteI don't like the implications of the statement "There's no nice way to wage a counterinsurgency."
http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2011/03/libya-nadir-achieved.html
Afghanistan seems to be a very important geostrategic point. I fear there are other reasons the US is there for so long.
ReplyDelete- It is a possible transit country for pipe lines
- It is rich in various natural recourses
- It really confuses me that since US occupation drug production has increased big time there. How is that possible? Really fishy...
- They installed a corrupt government
- And it is next to Iran
I think humanitarian reasons are not really an issue, so I am not sure if you can call it a "mistake"...