The changing of the guard in the Middle East continues to unfold with the latest casualty, the death of Gadhafi. The Middle East continues to undergo a governmental metamorphosis with little movement towards democracy despite the accolaides given the Arab Spring by our government .
As if this is not unsettling enough, we, the U.S. have now sent forces to Uganda where another governmental confrontation is unfolding. Where is the reporting of this new activity in the main street media? Thank goodness for alternative news sources.
HAT TIP: The Patriot Post, Digest, Friday, October 21, 2011
Libya Ends While Another Conflict Begin
The present administration has a curious way of looking at warfare. In situations where the United States is at least indirectly threatened by the specter of radical Islam, Barack Obama is tripping over himself looking for a way out. But if he has a chance to take out the leader of a country that poses no threat, well, Obama is all over it. Just ask Moammar Gadhafi. 
Well, you could if Gadhafi were still alive. Libya’s longtime brutal dictator was killed by fighters who overtook his hometown of Sirte Thursday. Deposed and forced from Tripoli in August, Gadhafi had fled to Sirte as a last refuge. As his enemies closed in, he attempted to flee once more, but was taken alive by revolutionary forces before being killed. With his death and the fall of the last of his regime’s strongholds, the National Transitional Council will move to consolidate power and reunify the nation. Memo to Moammar: Sic semper tyrannis!
Historian Victor Davis Hanson summed it up: “The Middle East is a very different place than it was on 9/11: Saddam dead, Osama bin Laden dead, Qaddafi dead, Mubarak near dead, and Assad reeling. Much of this transition is due to the decision after 9/11 to push for radical change in the Middle East, started by George Bush and more or less continued uninterrupted by Barack Obama. After the capture of Saddam, Qaddafi saw a glimpse of his own fate; one wonders how many Middle East despots are doing the same as they view the ghoulish pictures of a seemingly dead Qaddafi that are now all over the Internet.”
Meanwhile, Obama has sent U.S. forces to Uganda to oppose Joseph Kony, the leader of a ragtag group of miscreants calling themselves the Lord’s Resistance Army. The group, primarily child soldiers forced into taking up arms and led by Kony’s iron fist, has been terrorizing central Africa for a number of years, though it cannot be construed as a threat to American national security. Now Kony, by all accounts a scoundrel of the highest degree, finds himself the target of 100 American military advisers deployed to Uganda last week in a “non-combat role.” U.S. forces were sent to help regional military units fight off this guerrilla group and take care of Kony once and for all. While Congress has allowed the president plenty of leeway in dealing with Kony through a resolution passed in 2010, military force wasn’t specifically authorized.
