That Was Fast

So . . . . . . are we done with Libya already?

It seems like only days ago that the French were kicking ass and taking names. The Brits were on board, the Germans were finally on the good side of a conflict and we all got to see footage of Tomahawk missiles being shot off of naval ships. Awesome, awesome, awesome.

Now what? Nobody in NATO will even admit we're in a conflict, the Germans took their ball and went home, the French disappeared (did they surrender to Libya?) and Obama's just gonna try and get past the whole thing.

I have a sneaking suspicion that the reason we seemed to have bailed on this hastily organized cluster f is that we realized at some point that we were helping Al-Qaeda overthrow Mommar. What other reason could there be? Surly the good Colonel is a ruthless enough dictator that killing him would surly be a blessing for the world. The only way you wouldn't want that was if bin Laden was hiding in a hummus barrel somewhere in Tripoli just waiting for the chance to strike.

One thing's for sure though, we need to stop all these world leaders from declaring that we're not at war with Libya. Unless Obama has some serious Clintonian mojo, I'm betting all those Tomahawks did more than blow up thousands and thousands of aspirin factories. I can assume the only reason we haven't seen video of the all the corpses is that all the "freedom fighters" are too busy sexually assaulting journalists to do any actual muckraking. If only these people knew that that the key to any good revolution was the effective implementation of Twitter and Facebook on the battlefield. Not that I'm judging any culture. We're all exactly the same, all great, all equal, no judging. Some are just a little more rapey than others.

I don't even know what to make of this situation anymore. I guess Japan is fine too? Seems like two days ago the entire country was going to melt and today I read that Japan has had a 9% jump in exports because China's been buying more stuff. Really? Growing that trade business while dealing with an earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown? Yet when I look at the classified there's just a big hand giving me the finger. Awesome. Maybe if we start and ill-conceived bombing campaign against another middle eastern country I can get a job welding fins to missiles or something.