Our American Libya.
Barack Obama was duly elected by the American people to end the religious folly wars in the Middle East, perpetrated by Dick Cheney and his puppet-boy Georgie Walker Bush. White boys attacking brown men. For no reason.
Did you cheer that? Fund it? Clap-clap; paint your fingers purple?
Barack Obama failed.
Instead, he surrounded himself with a crew of women who needed something to prove their manhoods -- Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, Samantha Power -- who decided that helping to overthrow Libya's leaders as America did Iraq's, would help them follow in GWB's footsteps...
They succeeded.
“We came, we saw, he died!” Hillary Clinton exclaimed upon the death of Muammar Qaddafi.
And just like George Jr., America had no credible plans for the country, after their leaders were overthrown.
America 2020: meet Libya.
Now controlled solely by might, by roaming bands of tribal leaders each tagging and taking their own territory, each equipped with their own guns and warriors. Not too many women leaders in government systems like that.
I have no fear because I know American police and military, and civilians armed with advanced weaponry, could easily "put down" these current roving bands. We are just playing at being patient now. But make no mistake, without law and order, your women and children are indeed at risk.
Yes, yours.
Pay lip service all you like, cheer on the destruction if you think you are helping, and try to topple today's powers that be.
But never forget the collateral damage.
All the purple-fingered, women-voting advocates, and South Side community re-builders always seem to fall short in the end...
And then we have what America's women leaders left in Libya.
Eyes wide open, friends..
Proud? Not me.
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