MASSACRE – Things are getting obscene in Libya.  This is the country whose regime the Obamans whitewashed when they came to office.  Our relations were upgraded, the commercial contracts are flowing.  From WaPo:

CAIRO -- Libyan forces fired machine-guns at mourners marching in a funeral for anti-government protesters in the eastern city of Benghazi Sunday, a day after commandos and foreign mercenaries loyal to longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi pummeled demonstrators with assault rifles and other heavy weaponry.

A doctor at one city hospital said his morgue had received at least 200 dead from six days of unrest.

The doctor said his hospital, one of two in Libya's second-largest city, is out of supplies and cannot treat more than 70 wounded in similar attacks on mourners Saturday and other clashes.

The other sound you hear, when the machine guns die down, is the sound of silence on the part of "progressives," too busy in Wisconsin to notice the massacres going on in the Mideast. 

And, of course, notice the silence of the European "human rights" protesters. 

But the left, being the left, will go back to its usual posturing once the massacres are over, as if nothing had happened.  Did the Cambodian genocide stop them?  No.  Did 9-11 change them?  No. 

And the Obama administration?  Do you recall a time, other than the administration of Jimmah Carter, when America seemed so pathetic, so weak, so lacking in influence? 

Sometimes I wish we had a parliamentary system, where a government can be brought down by a vote of "no confidence."  We'd have a good shot with Barack Hussein Obama.

February 20, 2011