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Opinionator Emeritus (OE) has a few thing to say about the Pentagon’s dissatisfaction with President Obama’s unsteady policy decisions regarding the Libyan political and human rights crisis: to support the ‘rebels’ or not to support the ‘rebels’, Islamic radicals or true democrats, how many armies must we train and materially support with our vast yet not inexhaustible treasury, will the sorties engaged in be enough, does the defense of innocent human life constitute a policy? vexing questions needing answers. One might excuse the President for his seeming faltering, indecisive political position, as an expression of not really knowing ; what the situation, in actuality, is.(Excuse me, your writer’s usual lucidity has surrendered to the crisis mode.) Even though we are possessed of the most well financed and equipped spying agencies in the history of the modern nation state, as the narrative of American supremacy, in all things, goes. Be that as it may, OE in this installment of The American Political Melodrama, speaks with the voice of his Pentagon sources, allies and friends, off the record, of course. But OE’s essay reflects a certainty, a conviction of not a mere reporter but of an advocate reflecting a kind of lived experience, or is this simply deft literary sleight of hand. We have reached another denouement, as the screen fades to black.
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