April Fools

Yesterday, I posted about Obama signing a presidential directive to allow the CIA to conduct secret operations in Libya and scoffed at the idea that he thinks he controls the CIA, saying: “as if they aren’t already there.”

Today, I read in Justin Raimondo’s post that:

[S]omeone in the Obama administration leaked the news that the CIA has had its boots on Libyan ground for at least the past three weeks.

Now I am convinced that those who have been claiming Obama to be naïve are indeed right. He apparently just found out from the leak that the CIA were already there and, by signing that silly directive, attempted to give the impression that he, Benevolent Emperor, gave them permission. What a douche.

[T]his is transnational progressivism in action. This is what [writer Andrew] Sullivan and his fellow fools voted for, and now they’re getting it. All the whining about how its "fantastically contrary to what [Obama] campaigned on" is yet more evidence of cultic blindness.

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Of course Libya is crawling with CIA, as well as British, French, and Italian spooks, and what they’re gathering is a lot more than "intelligence": they’re out there collecting potential "leaders" among the rebels, choosing up sides, determining who will go on the payroll and who will be quietly sidelined or eliminated.

No shit. How could anyone who wasn’t born yesterday think otherwise? I’d be more surprised to find out that there is somewhere – anywhere – that the CIA isn’t.

And, back to Obama’s desire to look and be imperial:

The "Arab Spring" that was previously being celebrated and closely watched the world over has now been co-opted and transformed into something else entirely. Faced with the prospect of losing its Middle Eastern allies to a wave of uprisings, the Americans have decided to go with the flow, so to speak, and try to control it as best they can.

Not “the Americans,” Justin. The Empire.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.