Friday, July 29, 2011

THE IRONY OF THE U.S. SPENDING BILLIONS FOR DEMOCRACY IN LIBYA

The U.S., is currently engaged in two wars of remarkable similarity. One in Washington, D.C., Senate Democrats vs. House Republicans over the debt limit, and one in Libya, under the guise of NATO.

The civil war in Libya is more traditional: guns, bombing, thousands of civilian casualties, costing U.S. Taxpayers Billions of dollars. The war in Washington is the "civilized" version of a civil war fought with rhetoric and falsifications. In Libya and in Washington, "high ground" is sought by each side. The irony is, the U.S./NATO war in Libya is ostensibly being fought so that the Libyan people will have a direct say in government, a true democracy. The war Washington is being fought absent any direct say from U.S. citizens. The U.S. is spending BILLIONS of U.S. Taxpayer dollars in hopes of establishing a true democracy in Libya, a democracy that does not exist in the U.S..