For those of us who are incredulous at the changing rationales for our intervention in the Libyan civil war, Deputy National Security Adviser 
Denis McDonough has come to the rescue. He told reporters that “we don’t make decisions about questions like intervention based on consistency or precedent. We make them based on how we can best advance our interests in the region.” Thus, inconsistency is the consistent policy that we are trying to advance?
The White House has sent out legions of allies to defend his decision to intervene in a civil war. We were originally told that we simply wanted to maintain a no-fly zone. We are now actively assisting the rebels in their campaign and taking out government forces. What is most striking are the liberals who are defending the President and acknowledging that the distinction between Libya and Syria is probably oil (which we refer obliquely to as “our interests”). The key is that we no longer offer a pretense of principle or consistency. We appear now to simply be saying that we are the United States and can intervene whenever it suits our purposes.
Source: USA Today
What Gyges said.
Although I must say that the thought of sauerkraut pie is truly revolting.
And I love sauerkraut.
Come on, Taliban Trollery.
Talk some more smack. I’ll be glad to make you look like a fool some more. Although, in all fairness, you do most of the work on that job yourself.
Swarthmore,
You see how I typed out (very nicely) that I thought you were articulate and that your own reasons for disagreeing with me were valid? Heck, even Buddha said you weren’t being unreasonable.
However, did you happen to notice how neither of us said that we thought you probably thought the same about us? That’s because every post of yours that addresses people you disagree with on this topic reads exactly like how my 13 year niece talks to her little sister.
Giving us enough credit to consider that we actually put enough thought into our views that a single article about how somebody that may run against President Obama is crazy isn’t going to sway us might go a long ways towards facilitating a conversation worth having.
Henman,
That bet was settled by Sauerkraut pie.
I repeat: It was gibberish because you lack the fundamental intelligence and English skills to understand “second person” and why it would be improper to refer to yourself that way.
I’m sure – just like I’m sure about Blouise’s firewall joke about you – that everyone got the joke . . . except for you.
Which is pretty much par for the course.
Buddha:
It was gibberish and unintelligible because it didn’t make sense.
Mike Appleton:
LOL
We do think of it as your job, Team Tootles.
You’re paid to be a partisan hack troll.
Elaine:
I agree with you. The point is you brought up Hucksterbee because he is likely to run against Obama. But Obama is no better.
You bring up more Republican creeps (Newt, etc). That is fine. I agree wholeheartedly that they are scum. That said I’m still going to bring up the Democrat creeps (Obama, Pelosi, Reid) because all claim to be Christians. All advocate the sexual molestation of innocent civilians at our airports. All advocate stealing money through confiscatory taxation. And all support snuffing out the lives of 50 million (or so!) innocent unborn in the womb.
If you list the hypocrites on the right I’m going to list the ones on the left. Think of it as my job.
Elaine,
A person of Newtie’s character resorting to Rohypnal?
I’m thinking he was probably a pioneer in the subject.
BIL,
“To be clear, the job I’m referring to is sleeping with Newt. I understand some women find “power” an aphrodisiac, but come on, ladies! He’s got a face like a catcher’s mitt, the physical presence of a mound of dirty laundry, and all the personality of the un-mopped floor in an old-style Times Square porn theater.”
In response to a post from rafflaw, I posted this on the Newt thread:
If Newt were the last man on earth I’d still pick the cucumber …
Tootie:
Hey, no fair. Don’t attack my privileged Ivy League education just because you’re mad at Buddha.
Hey, Tootles.
After re-reading my description of Newt, you should really give him a call.
You two are a match like coal mining and toxic slurry.
Buddha,
Never trust a man whose head is bigger than the trunk of his body. Women who find/found Ole Newtster’s power to be an aphrodisiac get/got exactly what they deserve. Are you sure Newt didn’t drug the women first so their skin wouldn’t crawl?
😉
Tootles,
My last sentence was only incomprehensible to you because you lack the fundamental intelligence and English skills to understand “second person” and why it would be improper to refer to yourself that way.
It’s a tough job, but nobody had to do it, Elaine.
To be clear, the job I’m referring to is sleeping with Newt. I understand some women find “power” an aphrodisiac, but come on, ladies! He’s got a face like a catcher’s mitt, the physical presence of a mound of dirty laundry, and all the personality of the un-mopped floor in an old-style Times Square porn theater.
Taliban Tootie,
“You appear to be the flaming idiot. This is because it doesn’t matter what or who you really are. All that matters is what I say you are. I get to make up whatever I wish about you and that is what you have to live with.”
It is abundantly obvious facts don’t matter to you – you prove it with every single one of your posts. You may think your opinion matters, your Royal Vileness, but it doesn’t mean shit to me. Further, I don’t have to live with you think of me and it’s goddamned pathetic on your part that you think I do. You, on the other hand, must live with the fact that you are far from the sharpest tool in the shed. And, that, Taliban, is your problem, not mine.
“It is because you have set up this standard here with your remarks and comments to me. Since you get to make up whatever is not true about me, then I get to invent whatever fiction about you I wish because you get to do the same to me.”
I set no standard’s, I set no rules for anyone but myself. You, however, have proven you are a bigotted, ignorant, hypocritical, paranoid, homophobic asshat “christian” who expects others to swallow the vomit you spew with nary a word, but piss, moan, whine and play the victim when you are called to the carpet for it. Sorry, Taliban – that shit doesn’t fly with me.
“This are your rules, not mine. And now you are whining at crying about the standard you set for me.”
In case you miss it, I’ll repeat – I set no standard’s for anyone but myself. You, however, have proven you are a bigotted, ignorant, hypocritical, paranoid, homophobic asshat Christian who expects others to swallow the filth you spew with nary a word, but piss, moan, whine and play the victim when you are called to the carpet for it. Sorry, Taliban – that shit doesn’t fly with me.
“You are not very bright. But that isn’t a problem. The real problem is what a vicious evil person you are.””
I’m a lot brighter than you are, Royal Vileness, there is no question about that. The real problem here is that you project; you think you see in others what you, either consciously or subconsciously, know is true in yourself but refuse to acknowledge. It is you that is a vicious and evil piece of rat filth.
Now, if you didn’t get it the first time … go fuck yourself with a bible.
Buddha:
Your last sentence was gibberish and unintelligible. Let me guess, you went to an Ivy or Baby Ivy league school?
If excellent colleges produced decent wise leaders our country would not be near collapse because they are surely running this show. Instead all we get are well schooled imbeciles, perverts, and despots.
I’m must admit it though that the country would have to be better off with Clown College grads.
Tootie,
There’s plenty of hypocrisy to go around–in both parties. I especially love all those holier than thou family value folks like Newt Gingrich, John Ensign, David Vitter, Mark Sanford. Newt cheated on his first two wives only because he was patriotic and loved his counrty sooooo much. He committed adultery for Uncle Sam. What a guy!
😉
“You are not very bright. But that isn’t a problem. The real problem is what a vicious evil person you are.”
Are you talking about yourself in second person again, Tootles?
You should really lay off the Kool-Aid.
Stazi Stamford (aka Samir Shabazz)
You wrote:
“I might take offense, however, you flaming idiot, I’m a woman, I’m white, and I’m an athiest … your pathetic attempt to insult me has failed … miserably.”
You appear to be the flaming idiot. This is because it doesn’t matter what or who you really are. All that matters is what I say you are. I get to make up whatever I wish about you and that is what you have to live with.
Why is that?
It is because you have set up this standard here with your remarks and comments to me. Since you get to make up whatever is not true about me, then I get to invent whatever fiction about you I wish because you get to do the same to me.
This are your rules, not mine. And now you are whining at crying about the standard you set for me.
You are not very bright. But that isn’t a problem. The real problem is what a vicious evil person you are.