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And Now Libya

By Joe Klein | @JoeKleinTIME | February 16, 2011 | +

I’ve been waiting for this. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving dictator. Except, perhaps, the Supreme Leader in Iran.

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  • afguy

    It’s happening all over the place over there… to our “friends” and those we don’t consider so.
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    Don’t hold your breath, however, that they are going to now ask us back to use Wheelus.
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    Throwing out “one of them” isn’t necessarily going to be following by welcoming “one of us”… no matter how much we wish upon a star or slick our heels.

  • afguy

    That’s “click our heels”.

  • anon76

    I thought ‘slicking’ was apropos, considering the oil.

  • newfreedomblog

    The great Caliphate is being born, right before your very eyes Joe Klein. Celebrate while you can.

  • anon76

    It all started with toppling our favorite strongman in Iraq, Rusty. Just something to contemplate when you’re kneeling to face Mecca for morning prayers is a couple of years. They’re coming for you, Rusty.
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    ps- shouldn’t the Great Caliphate be ‘re-’born? Or is this a different Caliphate?

  • robbert5

    Wow, it seems that Glenn Beck is actively engaged on this blog site. I mean surely he is the only one who believes this caliphate nonsense.

  • lupercal5

    what’s a caliphate?

  • afguy

    Works for me…

  • centfan

    I’m on a low caliphate diet.

  • centfan

    I take the reports of revolution sweeping the Middle East with a grain of salt simply because it’s viewed through the pop lemming media filter. If a plane crashes or a train derails suddenly there is a whole string of similar disasters reported. That only tells me that the news outlets have a favorite key word to Google now that crashes or revolutions are the interesting things that interesting people are interested in for the moment.
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    If it is revolution running on a common thread through many countries I don’t see that as a bad thing. Islamic fundamentalism isn’t known for putting meat on the table (unless one group or other is recruiting locally). If a given population had some kind of economic structure, even unfair, and they see it devolve into a hypocritical Taliban state with total dependence on outside “sponsors” then that’s one Islamic wave that won’t have much potential to propagate.
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    Iran is no more equipped to survive as-is than Libya. Same leaders, same methods, different curtains.

  • hippooath

    I’m just wondering what newfreedom is smoking that makes him so damn scared of the same things he supported during the Bush years; the flowering spreading freedom in Middle East. Now it’s like – OH DANG! TURBANS ARE FREEING THEMSELVES!

    Ironically as we ham fistedly ‘freed’ the Iraqis just to see the new ‘democratic’ process hit a few snags when they threw out our handpicked man, we often said that we might just not get exactly what we asked for. If Palestine is any indication, sometimes democracy have a tendency of electing people that might not be very good for our policies. But that’s how it is.

    But then the meme have changed from freedom to, be really really afraid of the Moslems, especially da brothas. I mean, if the New Panther party with it’s 2 members can make someone soil the speedoes I’m sure the moslems must require blood pressure pills on drip.

  • afguy

    Isn’t Caliphate® something old people take to treat low bone density?

  • afguy

    Sorry… migrate to respond to 2.3.

  • newfreedomblog

    Oh I am not scared. Bring it on!! Let’s roll!!

  • hippooath

    If you’re not scared why do act like your panties are in a twist all the time?

  • afguy

    Must be the lace trim that’s irritating him.

  • lcky9

    Just one question NOW WHAT??? Who takes over?? the Muslim Brotherhood?? Look at their website.. let me know if they will be a improvement..

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