Today is a three-fer. Try as I might I couldn’t limit the Wingnut Award to just one or even two people. Today I had to offer three awards. Hang on your hats friends here we go.
So let me see if I have this right.
John McCain (Senator from AZ) and Lindsey Graham (Senator from SC) have stated that Obama’s approach to Libya was a
failure. Somehow, while congratulating the American people for overcoming that evil dictator, Gaddafi, they managed to express disappointment that the way Obama went about it was wrong, because the “full force of the United States” was not brought to bear. In their opinion, a six month conflict was “too long.”
That means that a revolution by the Libyan people and for the Libyan people (assisted by NATO), would have been better accomplished had the United States gotten more involved with troops.
Hmmm. Can anyone say Iraq or Afghanistan? These are the two longest running wars in American history, where much greater force was brought by our service men and women, where far more lives were lost (both ours and theirs), where untold trillions of dollars have been spent, where very messy situations continue to exist; these are Ok to McCain and Graham? But a six month, more minimal engagement, without a boot on the ground, to defeat the man the grandfather of the conservative right, President Reagan, wanted desperately to defeat is somehow a failure. I don’t get it unless this is just politics as usual.
For this opinion these two “gentlemen” get my Wingnut of the Week Award.
DISCLAIMER: I really hate all wars and I wish we would not get involved policing the world. I do have the utmost respect for people –soldiers and pacifists- who are willing to die for others. And I hope, should the need arise, I would be so courageous.
Finally our old friend Pat Robertson is at it again. This week, on The 700 Club, Pat suggested the earthquake induced
crack in the Washington Monument might be a symbol from God like the biblical account of the rending of the veil in the temple as Jesus was being crucified.
Uhhh Pat. You sure you want to put those events together in the same paragraph? It seems a bit over the top…even for you. So we have the death of the Son of God and a very minor earthquake with a bit of damage. Seriously dude. Lighten up.
There you have it folks. Three awards for three outrageous people.
