Billy Crystal Runs the World
Oftentimes progressivism is little more than a slight reworking of Billy Crystal’s Fernando character from Saturday Night Live: “If it makes you feel good, you must be doing good — and baby, you feel maaahvelous.” Anyway, that’s what I thought upon seeing the latest inanity out of the ICC:
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, his son and his intelligence chief for crimes against humanity in the early days of their struggle to cling to power.
Is the idea to stop the slaughter and remove Gadhafi from power? Fine. Let him keep his money — or at least enough of it — and find a nice beach to retire to. Maybe the Saudis will have him; they took Idi Amin.
Instead? Let some ICC justices issues warrants. Let the Pentagon admit that we’re trying to kill him. Freeze his accounts. Give him every possible incentive to hang on to power for as long as possible, even if it means killing every single person in the country.
But that’s OK, because the right people must feel maaahvelous today.
Myself, I’d prefer letting him BELIEVE he has “enough money” and freezing it all once he hits the beach. The SOB should die destitute.
Oh, absolutely. Pretty much anything to get him out of power with minimal bloodshed — not to mention minimal risk to our own people.
Although I suppose our non-war is promoting the latter just fine, while providing maximum risk to the people of Libya. It’s almost as if they’re mere props in a progressive morality play.
I didn’t realize it was a big secret that preventing future violence sometimes requires forgoing justice for past violence. Or maybe they just don’t think it’s worth it. Justice being so important and all.
Are you suggesting that with the current plan and execution thereof that they will get GoDaffy but not until he kills everyone else in Libya?
Is it really necessary to be so pedantic?
But that would never happen, of course, it is the incentive.
And the difference between Libya and Syria is. . ., what, exactly?
What happens in Syria actually matters, what happened in Libya didn’t until we put our prestige on the line.
The “fools errand” of enticing Assad into the Israeli/Palestinian peace process has been part of every element of our mid-East policy. That single imbecilic notion determined in part our refusing to support freedom within and our appeasement of Iran. It is also explains in part our overall tolerance of anti-American thugs while abandoning pro-American thugs. Mideast peace is the only element of foreign policy O’Sputnik really cares about. His hope still is to be the first American president to win two Nobel prizes. After all they didn’t take away Kissinger’s after we abandoned South Vietnam to it’s fate.