Comments on: The WaPo gets it half right: release of the Lockerbie bomber https://thenewneo.com/2009/08/22/the-wapo-gets-it-half-right-release-of-the-lockerbie-bomber/ A blog about political change, among other things Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:25:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: nyomythus https://thenewneo.com/2009/08/22/the-wapo-gets-it-half-right-release-of-the-lockerbie-bomber/#comment-122217 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:25:57 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/08/22/the-wapo-gets-it-half-right-release-of-the-lockerbie-bomber/#comment-122217 I’m see that now — how utterly contemptible and shameful!

I smell George Galloway…

]]> By: armchair pessimist https://thenewneo.com/2009/08/22/the-wapo-gets-it-half-right-release-of-the-lockerbie-bomber/#comment-122202 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:08:31 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/08/22/the-wapo-gets-it-half-right-release-of-the-lockerbie-bomber/#comment-122202 Correction:

It doesn’t matter, but “compassion” has very little to do with the affair.

Need stronger tea this morning.

]]> By: armchair pessimist https://thenewneo.com/2009/08/22/the-wapo-gets-it-half-right-release-of-the-lockerbie-bomber/#comment-122201 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:07:13 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/08/22/the-wapo-gets-it-half-right-release-of-the-lockerbie-bomber/#comment-122201 It doesn’t matter, but “compassion” has every little to do with the affair. It’s about oil and gas. Libya has; the West hasn’t. Personally, I’d make nice to Putin before I’d grovel to the like of Col Quad. I’m only surprised he didn’t demand the Queen for one of his brides. The politicians would have stuffed her on the Tripoli flight too.

I’m actually happy that he thumbed his nose at the lot of us. Maybe, finally, we’ll conclude to explore and drill and use our own. But there is the little matter of that numbskull in the Oval Office…

]]> By: nyomythus https://thenewneo.com/2009/08/22/the-wapo-gets-it-half-right-release-of-the-lockerbie-bomber/#comment-122199 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:11:56 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/08/22/the-wapo-gets-it-half-right-release-of-the-lockerbie-bomber/#comment-122199 Unless a legal preemptive option is taken — but that requires extraordinary real-compassion, mercy, moral courage, and 82 Airborne style professionalism.

The only thing missing is an international legality, again which we had in Iraq many times over.

Libya bypassed this quite cleverly in 2003 when they came clean, only by the threat of real force, with their WMD program and handed over their arms.

North Korean is flaunting it’s international crimes regarding WMD’s — so this is a plus in regards to acting on moving from the military stalemate to the humanitarian issue at hand.

As both spiral more and more into decay, more legality will emerge — so sad, so sad!

]]> By: nyomythus https://thenewneo.com/2009/08/22/the-wapo-gets-it-half-right-release-of-the-lockerbie-bomber/#comment-122198 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:02:44 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/08/22/the-wapo-gets-it-half-right-release-of-the-lockerbie-bomber/#comment-122198 The sad thing is that one day, like North Korea, Libya will burn in an unimaginable fire – it’s what their fascism offers them; a clash of opposites, an unfulfillable promise, and ultimately utter ruin of city and steel and waste of the innocent.

]]> By: Oblio https://thenewneo.com/2009/08/22/the-wapo-gets-it-half-right-release-of-the-lockerbie-bomber/#comment-122190 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:44:01 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/08/22/the-wapo-gets-it-half-right-release-of-the-lockerbie-bomber/#comment-122190 Technology, you might be right, but you shouldn’t rule out the potential of an invincible craven stupidity.

]]> By: Technology https://thenewneo.com/2009/08/22/the-wapo-gets-it-half-right-release-of-the-lockerbie-bomber/#comment-122179 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 09:23:02 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/08/22/the-wapo-gets-it-half-right-release-of-the-lockerbie-bomber/#comment-122179 It seems there were some under the table deals going on with the release.

]]> By: Nolanimrod https://thenewneo.com/2009/08/22/the-wapo-gets-it-half-right-release-of-the-lockerbie-bomber/#comment-122160 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:51:49 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/08/22/the-wapo-gets-it-half-right-release-of-the-lockerbie-bomber/#comment-122160 Say – where do you suppose the friends and relatives of the Lockerbie people might purchase one o’ them new-fangled Predator or Reaper thangs?

]]> By: Oblio https://thenewneo.com/2009/08/22/the-wapo-gets-it-half-right-release-of-the-lockerbie-bomber/#comment-122127 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:50:41 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/08/22/the-wapo-gets-it-half-right-release-of-the-lockerbie-bomber/#comment-122127 [sic]

s/b Frantz Fanon.

]]> By: Oblio https://thenewneo.com/2009/08/22/the-wapo-gets-it-half-right-release-of-the-lockerbie-bomber/#comment-122123 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:09:25 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/08/22/the-wapo-gets-it-half-right-release-of-the-lockerbie-bomber/#comment-122123 huxley, you are of course right. “De-colonialism” is the master narrative for people like him. Does anyone else remember Franz Fanon? Obama does.

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